![]() ![]() ![]() Beckett would later expand this technique in his absurdist dramas, giving his characters increasingly bizarre names. ![]() Placed together, the names seem odd, somehow out of place. Within this decidedly bourgeois framework, Sartre introduces three characters with two-syllable names: Garcin (very close to garcon, French for “boy”), Inez (“Ines” in the French version), and Estelle (suggesting “star”, and therefore heaven). The Second Empire style is the epitome of the ostentatious, neo-classical tendency of French art and design, and is therefore a perfect representative for Sartre’s distaste for the bourgeoisie. Sartre was a tireless champion of human dignity, and despised many of the bourgeois values of his society (refusing even to marry his longtime companion). Rather, the setting is a drawing room containing only Second Empire furniture: there are no windows, no mirrors, and no signs of the outside world save for a single, locked door. Three characters are trapped in hell, but there are no instruments of torture or pits of fire. NO EXIT by author Taylor Adams (EYESHOT, OUR LAST NIGHT) is a 2019 thriller novel which follows one night in the life of Colorado college student Darby Thorne as she drives to Utah, where her mother has been recently hospitalized with pancreatic cancer. ![]() Startlingly simple in design, the play’s power stems from the focus and precision of its form. The theater in which it was performed was called the Vieux-Colombier. No Exit was first performed in Paris in May 1944, only three months before the city’s liberation from the Nazi occupation. ![]()
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