Thanos Mikroutsikos, who wrote music for, among others, Assembly women, said in an interview: “Everything in theater needs to be justified. If it is not reasoned, it is just an idea of the mind. When reasoned, any idea can be applied. We are used to performances of the ancient drama by modern directors that contain a degree of arbitrariness which is not justified. Music in theater is music under restraint. When you write a string quartet or a song cycle, nothing really limits you. But when you’re in the theater, you’re limited by two parameters. The first one is the text. The second and most important parameter is the director’s point of view. These things determine the musical form or forms you will be working with during the performance”.
In 1986, Stamatis Kraounakis wrote the music for Lysistrata, directed by Andreas Voutsinas and translated by Lakis Lazopoulos, who was also the protagonist of that historic performance. Lina Nikolakopoulou wrote the lyrics of the songs and singers Manolis Mitsias and Alkistis Protopsalti performed them. Kraounakis recalls that he used to sleep at the studio, beneath the piano, as there was no time to abandon the recordings and the rehearsals and go home.