Spike Lee's recent film Chiraq adapted Lysistrata to Chicago's South Side, replacing an epic Greek war with equally epic gang violence. The stakes in Lysistrata Jones? Basketball. More specifically, a small college basketball team that no one cares about, until a sassy transfer student takes matters into her own hands. Refuge Theatre Project's Lysistrata Jones is an incredibly weak adaptation with a flimsy presence, …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:36AM on November 15, 2017