One of 80 deluxe copies on vélin de Hollande (no. 79).
Premiere in Paris, music by Jean Prodromidès, sets by Jean Tsaroukis. With Jean Martinelli (Poseidon), Françoise Le Bail (Pallas Athena), Éléonore Hirt (Hecuba), Jean-Pierre Bernard (Talthybios), Judith Magre (Cassandra), Nathalie Nerval (Andromache), Yves Vincent (Menelaus), Françoise Brion (Helen).
In the summer of 1964, Sartre wrote in Rome an adaptation of Euripides’s celebrated play, structured as an oratorio on the theme of war and its condemnation. The play was staged at the Théâtre National Populaire (TNP) on 10 March 1965, in a production directed by Michael Cacoyannis. In an interview given to Gisèle Halimi, Sartre explained: “For our audience to feel the deep truths expressed by Euripides, it was necessary to dramatize the play and modify certain characters.” Three years after the end of the Algerian War, Sartre denounces wars of conquest and mounts a genuine indictment of colonial wars.