The Flies

The Flies is a play by French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), written in 1943. It is an adaptation of the Electra myth.

Original text
The title in the original French is Les Mouches.

Translations and adaptations
Yaël Farber's Molora uses themes from Sartre's The Flies and Sophocles's Electra to explore a nation's conscience in the aftermath of a bloodbath.

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