It feels like there wasn't a very prominent setting in the play. I know it took place at the Akropolis, and that has symbolic significance within the play, but the characters don't really interact with their surroundings, just each other (and their clothes). So it seems like any director making this play could just have a nice building in the background and the set would be taken care of.
Yep, so the setting was very simple, but it helps explain how the women first took a stand by trying to control the money. I guess that says that men mostly care about money and sex, and that's what the women took away with their abstinence. So the Akropolis made sense with the play, but besides as an explanation and further evidence of the women's increasing power, it was not a very important aspect of the play in my opinion.
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i beg to differ. the akropolis is incredibly important in the play. not only is it the center of athens where almost all action takes place, it is the control center of athens--whoever controls the akropolis controls athens. the money is not given to the men, and the women decide to take it into their own hands to budget. besides the sex-strike, the control of the city through the akropolis is biggest thing in the story, in my opinion
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