Tiger at the Gates
by Jean Giraudoux, Christopher Fry
Synopsis
On the platform stage, bare but for a pair of immense gates, stalks the inevitable tiger of war.
Hector returns from battle as a peacemaker and convinces Ulysses and the populace of the insanity of war.
Together they agree that the Trojan War shall not take place.
But the poets need a war for their elegies and dirges; the king, because it is custom; the lawyer, because of his honor; and others, for various mean reasons.
And so, in spite of all logic, the war erupts.
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"A play of beauty, dignity and quality"
— New York Post
"Conveys wit and thought and humor"
— New York Times
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Tiger at the Gates is a play written by Jean Giraudoux and published by Samuel French (1956).
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Samuel French · 1956 · 78 pp
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