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| The Trojan War Will Not Take Place by Jean Giraudoux, The Lyttleton, The National Theatre, 10 May 1983 | ||
Designer - Eileen Diss  "Giraudoux's
heavily ironic play about the peace-seeking Hector's unavailing
attempt to forestall war had a certain fortuitous topicality. Britain
at that time was still recovering from the bellicose jingoism induced
by the Falklands War the previous year. The government's investment
[...] in Trident [...] guaranteed the survival of the so-called
'British independent deterrent.' In theory, it was a good moment
to revive a basically pacifist play."
Michael Billington, The Life and Work of Harold Pinter, London: Faber and Faber, 1996, pp.290-1. "Harold Pinter was a brilliant choice of someone to direct this, because it's a play of a kind of minimal desiccated elegance which suggests the minimal nature of Pinter's own rather classical dramatic world, which admittedly is not loquacious, but is dry and elegant in a Giraudoux way." Peter Conrad on Critics' Forum, BBC Radio 3, 14 May 1983. |
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