Southeastern Theatre presents ‘No Exit – Hell is other People’
Monday, October 5, 2015
by: Rene Abadie
HAMMOND – Southeastern Theatre presents “No Exit” by playwright Jean-Paul Sarte. The
play is translated and directed by Southeastern Louisiana University Professor Anne-Liese
Fox.
A part of Fanfare, the university’s annual fall festival of the arts, humanities
and social sciences, the performance will run Tuesday-Friday, Oct. 6-9, and take place
in Vonnie Borden Theatre located in D Vickers Hall at 7:30 p.m. nightly. General admission
tickets are $10; $5 for Southeastern faculty and staff, seniors, and non-Southeastern
students; and Southeastern students are admitted free with university ID.
Fox translated the play to modern times from its original release in Paris in
1944, reflecting the political resonances within the original context of the play.
Three deceased characters, Joseph Garcin, Inez Serrano, and Estelle Rigault, are damned
to hell and placed in a room together to torture each other for eternity.
“The tag line of the play is ‘Hell is other people.’ Jean-Paul Sartre wrote the
play during the last year of Nazi occupation of Paris during World War II,” Fox explained.
“Our design team has altered the performance space to create the unique environment
of the underworld.”
The cast consists of four Southeastern students including Angela Griffitt of
Mandeville as Inez; Shelby Elliot-Layman of Baltimore, Maryland, as Estelle; Justin
Davis of Greensburg as Garcin; and Larry Heard of Abita Springs as the Bellhop.
Elisabeth Odom, a senior at Southeastern, is the stage manager.
For more information, contact Southeastern Theatre at (985) 549-2115.
