Fun Facts!

• The play is set

  411BC
• Playwright

  Aristophanes
• Which war?

  Peloponnesian War
• What staging?

  Ampitheatre
• Male actors used prosthetics
• Women seen as sex-hungry alcoholics was the view at the time
• Brecht's audience


  Working class
• Liberian Civil War

  1999 - 2003
• Breasts prosthetic


  Prosterneda
• Belly prosthetics


  Progastreda
• Chorus are in the orchestra
• They wore masks to show they were women and something of their character
• Proskene is a raised platform for important characters
• Parados is the sides of the stage where they enter from
• The skene is the background of the proskene