No Way Out - by Jean Paul Sartre, translated by Frank Hauser
- What is hell? Is it a fiery pit or does it even exist?
No Way Out explores one possibility of what hell is really
like. There are no flames, no torture chambers and
no devil, just three people in a room from which
there is no escape. Three characters probing each
other's sins, desires, and unpleasant memories.
Part philosophical melodrama, part farce, set in a
maddeningly unstable world, No Way Out is an
existentialist play first performed in 1944, before the
liberation of Paris. It is the source of perhaps the
most famous Sartre quotation:
“Hell is other people.”
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- Produced by arrangement with Eric Glass Ltd.
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- Directed by Wendy Rolph and presented on 21 & 22 May 2010.
- Quote of the Play: >
- Garcin: "If I threw the bronze at the electric lamp, would it go out?" Waiter: "It's too heavy."
