Staging 'Peace' in Our Time: 'Peace'

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LOCAL PLAYWRIGHT Callie Kimball has impish fun with a 2,000-year-old play as she adapts Aristophanes' surprisingly resilient "Peace" into a bright, scathing antiwar comedy.

The Washington Shakespeare Company shoots at everything that moves in this impudent work, in which an anguished father from Carthage, Tenn., demands restitution — or at least an explanation — from the gods after his son is killed in battle. And getting answers from anyone in charge proves to be tougher than this citizen bargained for.

» Clark Street Playhouse, 601 S. Clark St., Arlington; through Sept. 28, $24-$50; 800-494-8497.