Written by Jean Giraudoux
Translated by Christopher Fry

Directed by A. A. Murphree

Giraudoux's play, originally bearing the ironic title The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, is an allegory and a satire directed chiefly at man's propensity for making war and fabricating a shibboleths with which to justify or rationalize it. It is thus one of a long line of antiwar plays that may be traced back to Euripides' The Trojan Women and Aristophanes' Lysistrata. Like Aristophanes, Giraudoux knew how to treat a serious subject humorously. And hence, Tiger at the Gates is a comedy; but it's is a comedy that gives rise to thoughts that lie too deep for tears. --- the Director