News release Public Information Office  SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu Spring 2004 news releases Public Information home News archive Contact: Angey Murray Date: 3/14/05   SOUTHEASTERN STAGES ORIGINAL PLAY BASED ON GREEK COMEDY      HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana University Theatre will present “Lyzzi Strata” March 15-19 at Southeastern’s Vonnie Borden Theatre.       Written and directed by Southeastern theater instructor Selisa Hue, “Lyzzi Strata” is Hue’s an adaptation based on Aristophanes’ ancient Greek comedy, Lysistrata, a story of the twenty-first year of a war in which a desperate state of things demands a desperate remedy. The women of Athens, led by Lysistrata and supported by female delegates from the other states of Hellas, determine to take matters into their own hands and force the men to stop the war. They meet in solemn conclave, and Lysistrata expounds her scheme, the rigorous application to husbands and lovers of a self-denying ordinance.      “Basically, the women of Athens have tired of the men fighting a war so they decide to withhold marital relations until the men sign a peace treaty,” said Hue. “It’s a light hearted treatment of a very serious topic.”      Starring in “Lyzzi Strata are Dennis Thomas and Erin Rode of Hammond; Ben Norman of Covington; Shiloh Klein, Shelisa Daniel, Joel Sutton and Natalie Austin of Ponchatoula; Lauren Bennett of Slidell; Kellie Silcio of Kenner; Kaily Boyle of Denham Springs; Oran Adams of New Orleans; Wade Kerr of Livingston; Kyle Stewart of Holden and Hope Cote of Mandeville.       “Lyzzi Strata” runs nightly beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are currently on sale at the theater box office, 985-549-2115, in the lobby of D Vickers Hall. Prices are $10 adults; $5 seniors, non-Southeastern students, and Southeastern faculty, staff, alumni; and free for Southeastern students with a valid I.D. For additional information,” contact the Department of Music and Dramatic Arts, 985-549-2184.