Theatre “No Exit” (“Huis Clos”) by Jean-Paul Sartre – Chania 9th to 12th May

WHEN: 9th – 12th May at 21.00
WHERE: Ip12 Art House, Iroon Polytechneiou 12 – Chania

Ticket price: €15
Reduced: €8
Reservations: 6973 525 049

The theatre group Between Light and Shadow presents a journey to Hell in a chamber theater, with ample light, without mirrors, where the personal value of each is determined by the opinion of others. Sartre presents three dead people who symbolize the triptych of the human psyche and in the Hell they arrive, they are welcomed by the Garçon, who enjoys the process of stripping and surprising them, since the hell they deserve is different from the one they expected.

Everything is fleeting and hovers between instincts and desires, the spatiotemporal moment of transition, from what has died to what struggles to be born or to continue hiding.

“No Exit “is one of Jean Paul Sartre’s most interesting existentialist short stories. It is a one-act play that was widely praised when it was first performed in 1944, shortly after the Liberation of France. The original title “Huis Clos” refers to a private discussion behind closed doors. It tells the story of three characters who find themselves trapped in a mysterious locked room, which they later find out, is in fact, hell. Sartre brilliantly emphasises that hell is not so much a specific place, but a state of mind.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Translation: Panos Kyparissis
Direction/Set Design: Roussa Markaki
On stage: Michalis Karakis Vasiliki Karystinou, Giota Paraskevopoulou, Demosthenis Charitakis
Original music: Giorgos Lionakis 

Source: ‘Between Light and Shadow’