THEATRE: COMING ATTRACTIONS

Saturday 12 June 1999 00:02 BST

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Germaine Greer's comic skills were the toast of the Cambridge Footlights - and some would argue that feminism's gain has been the comedy world's great loss. Now she has managed to bring comedy and feminism together in her reworking of Aristophanes's Lysistrata, the play which shows women refusing to have sex with their men to stop them fighting a pointless war. Maybe if Monica Lewinsky had been brought up on this text, recent history would have been somewhat different. Remember, cynicism also started with the ancient Greeks.

Lysistrata, BAC, London SW11 (0171-223 2233) from 2 July

Rachel Halliburton

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