Last update: February 13, 2010

No Exit will be a student directed play by Matt Beall, and will be performed on Thursday, March 11. Tickets are $5-8 for students and “the wiser” (age 60+), and $7-10 for adults.

Jean-Paul Sartre wrote the play No Exit to underline his key concepts of his view and practice of existentialism. While existentialists commonly believe that there is no afterlife, Sartre toys with the idea of a man and two women being trapped in a room together for the rest of eternity after death. They are ushered in by a "bellboy" to a room that is furnished with three available seats, an unmovable statue, and a letter opener. And the worst part of it is that they get on each other's nerves, which causes one of them to say that "Hell is Other People!"

Matt Beall chose to direct No Exit as part of a project for the International Baccalaureate Higher Level Theatre class taught at Poudre High School. He was intrigued by No Exit, because he wanted to look deeper into existentialism and Theatre of the Absurd, and No Exit seemed to be a good choice. He decided to have the production be performed in a space similar to a Black Box, with the audience on all sides. He did this for two reasons; first, because he wanted to try directing a show in-the-round; and second, because this would create the feeling of being "trapped" for the audience as well. He recommends sitting in the front row to experience the show to its fullest; those sitting in the front will hopefully feel more "trapped" and will also be only a couple feet from the action, literally...