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A review by zmb
The Birds and Other Plays: The Knights/Peace/Wealth/The Assembly Women by Aristophanes
5.0
5 stars for Birds, which is hilariously mock-tragic and gloriously silly.
5 stars for Lysistrata, which is much more ribald, but still is at least mock-serious and quite funny.
3 stars for Assembly-Woman, which is a little too much slapstick and poop jokes. Maybe it's that Praxagora disappears for a while; she starts off as promising as Lysistrata but then sort of fades away.
4 stars for Wealth, which has its good parts (Poverty's arguments, Wealth's overall wimpiness), but also has a little too much low humor without enough higher points.
5 stars for Lysistrata, which is much more ribald, but still is at least mock-serious and quite funny.
3 stars for Assembly-Woman, which is a little too much slapstick and poop jokes. Maybe it's that Praxagora disappears for a while; she starts off as promising as Lysistrata but then sort of fades away.
4 stars for Wealth, which has its good parts (Poverty's arguments, Wealth's overall wimpiness), but also has a little too much low humor without enough higher points.