The peace agreement Hector negotiates with the visiting Greek commander Ulysses, is no match for Demokos' deliberate lies, and at the end of the play, the seer Cassandra's cynical prediction that war cannot be avoided has been proven right.

La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu was translated into English as Tiger at the Gates by Christopher Fry, in The Drama of Jean Giraudoux, vol.

An early adaptation was presented in English under the title No War with Troy, with Philip Merivale and Edith Atwater in May, 1939, at the Ann Arbor Theatre Festival.

[4] The translation by Christopher Fry was first presented on 3 October 1955[5] in New York City by the Playwrights' Company with a British cast starring Michael Redgrave as Hector, Diane Cilento as Helen, Leueen MacGrath as Cassandra, and Barbara Jefford as Andromache.

(SOURCE: Bucks County Playhouse Playbill, Michael Ellis) A Broadway revival at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in 1968, starring Philip Bosco as Hector, ran for 44 performances.