Lysistrata

Marianna Toli, an actress and singer, has died, after a long battle with cancer.

She studied Art History at the University of Kentucky, classic and modern dance in London and singing and acting in Athens, where she graduated from the National Theatre's drama school.

Prolific actor and funnyman Yiannis Bezos directs and performs in a touring production of Aristophanes' comedy "Lysistrata" - in which the women of Greece seize power by refusing their men any bedtime fun until they put an end to the deadly Peloponnesian War.

"Everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise," said the dysfunctional heroine of Margaret Atwood in "Cat's Eye," capturing my sentiments in the last one week of strong statements.