The women of Athens, led by Lysistrata, refuse to have sex with their husbands until the men make peace. Aristophanes staged this comedy during the Peloponnesian War, and the jokes are bawdy, the satire pointed. The women seize the Acropolis; the men suffer. The play is often produced now as an antiwar statement, though Aristophanes was more complicated than that. The comedy is broad; the premise is still funny. Make love, not war, before anyone said it that way. The men give in. They always do.