No Exit

Year
2019 - 2020

Creatives
Director: Merel Bakker

Production Leader: Joppe van der Zwan

Writer
Jean-Paul Sartre

Synopsis
After their deaths Vincent Cradeau, Inez Serrano and Estelle Delauney find themselves locked in a room together. As they start to make each other’s acquaintance, questions begin to arise. Is this place heaven or hell? Was this room made for them? And if so, could they escape it or are they bound by fate? Soon questions of escape fade into the background as their deepest desires and darkest secrets are slowly revealed.

The French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre wrote No Exit (Huis Clos) in 1940s Paris. In the play he explores themes of determinism and the existential notion of one’s extreme responsibility for one’s decision and its consequences. As Cradeau asks Inez ‘Do you Think you can judge a whole lifetime by a single act?’ ‘Why not?’ is Inez’s response.

Cast
Stephen Samuel Johnson: Valet

Jeffrey van den Berg: Vincent Cradeau

Berber Aardema: Inez Serrano

Cassandra Brand: Estelle Delauney

Crew
Antonio Boar

Katrín Hrístova

Rosa Kremer

Niamh O’Shea Scanlan

Davina Procter

Natasha Singh

Booklet
Yet to be retrieved.

Performances
March 5th 2020: Usva Cultureel Studentencentrum

March 6th 2020: Usva Cultureel Studentencentrum

March 7th 2020: Usva Cultureel Studentencentrum