Le Sabre de mon père (transl.
My father's sabre) is a surrealist play written by Roger Vitrac which premiered at Théâtre de Paris in 1951.
Initially the play was unsuccessful and disliked by critics, even by those who were at the time supporting surrealist arts of this kind.
[further explanation needed] The play was defended by Jean Anouilh, who proclaimed: "We are some in the art who have been working since the last war to strangle the anecdote, to kill the idea of a good play that ruled the French theater [...] to the point of reducing it to the status of a mummy.
"[citation needed] Anouilh echoes Robert Kemp who stated in his article[citation needed]: "That Sabre, good in details and which, taken line by line, do not lack of taste but is overall, after all, insignificant..."