Update: New details on Spike Lee’s musical comedy Chiraq

By Jesse Giroux

Posted 11 years ago

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

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Details on Spike Lee's CHIRAQ were scarce when the Amazon Studios project was first announced last month, but now Screen Daily has learned that it is a musical reimagining of the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata, and "will centre on a woman’s quest to end gang warfare in Chicago." Written by Aristophanes, the play is about a woman named Lysistrata, who convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their lovers, with the hope that it will force the men to end the Peloponnesian War.

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