Event

"NO EXIT" by Jean-Paul Sartre

Aenigma Theatre is proud to present Jean-Paul Sartre's celebrated 1944 play "No Exit", adapted from the french by Paul Bowles.

""No Exit" offers a post-Freudian version of Hell"- The New York Times

"it not only encapsulates Sartre's existentialist philosophy, but left its indelible mark on Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Harold Pinter's hothouse dramas" The Guardian

Written during the heart of WWII, Sartre's French existential play follows the fates of three damned souls living in the 1940s. Cradeau, a pacifistic journalist, Inez, a lesbian postal clerk, and Estelle, a high-society woman, have all been sentenced to hell, ushered into a seemingly normal room, and locked in. To their surprise and suspicion, instead of fire and brimstone, they find that all they have to deal with for the rest of eternity is each other...

May 6-10 (Tuesday to Saturday) at 8pm
Studio 16, 1555 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, V6J 1S1

*Pay-what-you-can at the door on May 6th (Cash only)

Online ticket sales end at 12pm on the day itself. Tickets can also be purchased at the door (cash only). Box office opens at 7.10pm

Directed by Tanya Mathivanan

Featuring Jordan Kerbs, Harrison MacDonald, Annie Arbuckle and Michael Stewart

Set Design by Sarah Melo
Lighting Design by Patrick Smith
Costume Design by Laura Fukumoto
Sound Design by Javier Sortres
Stage Managed by Erica Leduc

"No Exit" is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC