Lysistrata's Children

Lysistrata's Children
Theater for the New City
2 hours

Lysistrata's Children is a play about a young teenage girl who seeks to put an end to war by recruiting peers for her anti-war cause. Together the adolescents work to demonstrate their passion for this cause by creating an anti-war petition and going to great lengths to have their parents sign it. Although comical at times, this play's message was immensely powerful. The children in the play helped create it and did an excellent job performing. I could see behind the set and it amazed me that the children were doing it all by themselves, with no adult supervision/guidance. Not only were these children talented but they were very knowledgeable about war and its detrimental implications.

This event showed that children are never too young to become agents of change. The children in this play were seeking to spread awareness of the atrocity of war and did an effective job at doing so. Moreover, it demonstrated that children can handle dealing with and analyzing issues as serious as war. As a future educator, I plan to expose my students to meaningful and serious issues and I know that if presented in the right way, they can begin to grapple with injustice and find where they fit in as agents of change.