India, Nov. 10 -- After staging The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a serious and sensitive play about a neurodivergent youngster, theatre director Atul Kumar will be staging an adaptation of the rip-roaring Greek play Lysistrata, written by Aristophanes in 411 BC. Produced by D for Drama, Atul Kumar's adaptation, called Ambaa, will be performed at the ongoing Prithvi Theatre Festival.

The original play has a hilarious, bawdy plot of a woman, Lysistrata, taking the initiative to bring an end to a festering war between Greek city states by calling for a sex strike. Gathering together women from the warring states, Lysistrata urges them to deny their men carnal pleasures until peace is negotiated. Not surprisingly, her canny...