The Trojan War Will Not Take Place (1983)

The Trojan War Will Not Take Place (1935)

Date from	3 May 1983 Previews: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (matinee and evening) and 9/5; performance times: evenings 19:45 and matinee 15:00. Press night: 10/5.
Date to	18 October 1983
No of Performances	43 Confidence Level
Language	English

Venues

National Theatre: Lyttelton Theatre

03-May-1983 to 18-Oct-1983

Linked Productions

No linked Production have been added to this production record yet.

Linked People

Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)

Creative | Director

Eileen Diss (1931)

Creative | Set Designer

Mick Hughes (1938 - 2018)

Creative | Lighting Designer

Robin Fraser Paye

Creative | Costume Designer

Harrison Birtwistle (1934)

Creative | Composer

Listed in the programme as 'Music'.

Jean Giraudoux

Creative | Playwright

Christopher Fry

Creative | Translator

Linked Organisations

Royal National Theatre (Producing & Receiving House | Est. 1963)

South Bank, London SE1 9PX, England

Producer.

Characters

Peace (Age: Not specified, Female)

Performer: Jane Evers

Troilus (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Julian Firth (1960)

Abneos (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Bill Moody (1949 - 2012)

Busiris (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Ronald Hines (1929 - 2017)

Ajax (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Derek Newark (1933 - 1998)

Ulysses (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Barry Foster (1931 - 2002)

Iris (Age: Not specified, Female)

Performer: Jane Evers

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Resources

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Sources

Harold Pinter Official Website

http://www.haroldpinter.org/directing/directing_trojan.shtml

URL

Accessed 2 May 2018.

Harold Pinter Appointments Diary, 1983

The British Library Modern Manuscripts, The Harold Pinter Archive, Add MS 88880/12/16, no ff

Library archive

Information about performance times taken from entries for May and October.

Daniel Rosenthal's The National Theatre Story

Daniel Rosenthal, The National Theatre Story (London: Oberon, 2013)

Academic book

Information about number of performances taken from Rosenthal's unpaginated book, and section for 1983.

The Trojan War Will Not Take Place (1983)

Venues

Linked Productions

Linked People

Linked Organisations

Royal National Theatre (Producing & Receiving House | Est. 1963)

Characters

Andromache (Age: Not specified, Female)

Cassandra (Age: Not specified, Female)

Hector (Age: Not specified, Male)

Paris (Age: Not specified, Male)

Priam (Age: Not specified, Male)

Hecuba (Age: Not specified, Female)

Polyxene (Age: Not specified, Female)