No Exit (Huis Clos, 1944) is Jean-Paul Sartre's best known play, staging three strangers locked together for eternity in a single room that turns out to be Hell. Its closing line, spoken by Garcin, 'Hell is other people,' became one of the twentieth century's most quoted phrases, dramatizing Sartre's account of how the gaze of others fixes and confines the self.
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The play was first performed at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in May 1944.
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No Exit (French: Huis clos, pronounced [ɥi klo]) is a 1944 existentialist French play by Jean-Paul Sartre. The play was first performed at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in May 1944. The play centers on a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for eternity.
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No Exit (French: Huis clos) is a 1944 existentialist French play by Jean-Paul Sartre.
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