Lisístrata ou de cando as mulleres reviraron, un híbrido aristofánico contra la guerra

Abstract

The rewriting and reworking of the models of Greco-Latin Antiquity has been constant in contemporary Galician drama since the second half of the 20th century. Mythological, historical, comic or philosophical themes inspire an important part of the Galician dramas that are published and/or performed from the 1950s to the present day and can even be used by their playwrights to establish a dialogue with its actuality through the canonical paradigm of the classical tradition. Lisístrata ou de cando as mulleres reviraron (1997) by Eduardo Alonso and Manuel Guede Oliva is a clear example, a new version that pairs two works by the comic poet Aristophanes, Lysistrata (411 BC) and Assemblywomen (392 BC), and uses the reinterpretation of both classic texts to explore on stage the alternatives to the established power, the anti-war and pacifist discourse or the role that women must assume in resolving the social and political problems that concern them. These lines will attempt to offer a critical and analytical reading of this Galician reworking of the plays by Aristophanes, paying close attention to its context of production and its repercussion in its theatrical system, as well as the existing intertextuality relationships between the new piece of Alonso and Guede and their reference hypotexts, the introduction of innovative elements both in the formal aspects and in the plot plane or the new vindictive and emancipatory readings that the Galician playwrights contribute to the utopian subversions of the Greek playwright.