No Exit

No Exit (Huis Clos; Les Autres)

    Alternative Title: In Camera; Vicious Circle

    Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

    First Performance: 1944, Paris

    Published: 1944

    First English Translation: 1946

    Genre: Drama in 1 act; French prose

    Setting: Room in hell, 1940s

    Cast: 2m, 2f

A servant ushers three people into the faded plush of what appears to be a hotel room. All three have recently died: Joseph Garcin, a South American pacifist journalist, who has been executed; Inès (or Inez) Serrano, a lesbian post-office assistant who has been gassed; and Estelle Rigault, who has died of pneumonia. Inès realizes that they have been locked together in this room with no exit and constant lighting, so that they will torture each other, a kind of self-service hell. They are...

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