Play in two parts by Jean Giraudoux
Translation: Dinu Albulescu

Artistic director: Otto Szombati Gille
Scenography: Margit Kocsis Nagy
Premiere date: May 4, 1974

The play "The Trojan War Will Not Happen" is first and foremost an important debate of ideas, its major tone being a plea against war. Using ancient fiction and illusion, the play aims to demystify war, destroy its legend, and strip it of the appearance of glory and heroism. The author demonstrates the precariousness of the arguments on which war is always based, entering directly into the heart of the discussions and anxieties of Europe at that time. "Rarely has a page of more human skepticism and more comprehensive sadness been written against war." (Mihail Sebastian, 1936)

The city of Troy is threatened by war. The Greek queen, Helen, has been abducted by the Trojan Paris and the Greeks will attack Troy if their queen is not released. Even within Troy, two camps are confronting each other. The war partisans, led by the official poet Demokos, incite national passions and conflict. On the contrary, the pacifist camp seeks to avoid war at all costs. Their most steadfast representative, Hector, the eldest son of King Priam, does not back down from anything to ensure peace and manages to get the Trojans to close the "gates of war". The arrival of Greek emissaries complicates matters and, although the meeting between Hector and Odysseus ends with the premises of peace, the interests of the warring camp prevail and the Trojan War cannot be avoided.

Distribution:

Andromache:  Simona Constantinescu
Cassandra:  Mariana Vasile
Hector:  Eugen Harizomenov
Paris:  Nicolae Barosan
Priam:  Dorel Urlățeanu emeritus artist
Hecuba:  Alla Tautu
Demokos:  Nicholas Thomas
The surveyor:  Ion Abrudan
Helen:  Eugenia Papaiani
Peace:   Kati Gabor
Young Troilus:  Theo Cojocaru
Abneos:  Octavian Uleu
Busiris:  Marcel Segărceanu
Oax:  Ion Martin, Marcel Popa
Ulysses:  Eugen Tugulea
The gabinete:  Ion Tomorrow
Olpides:  Grig Schiţcu
Iris:  Mia Popescu, Doina Ioja

Technical director: Dalma Simionescu
Prompter: Rodica Branea
Lighting: Vasile Blejan
Musical illustration and sound design: Dorel Olea