No Exit – Phil Weaver-Stoesz, December 2012
The play is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for eternity. It is the source of Sartre’s especially famous and often misinterpreted quotation “L’enfer, c’est les autres” or “Hell is other people”, a reference to Sartre’s ideas about the look and the perpetual ontological struggle of being caused to see oneself as an object in the world of another consciousness.
Contact: Doug L Caskey, phone 574.535.7393, email douglc@goshen.edu
