What does it mean to live in hell? That is one of the central questions explored in Jean-Paul Sartre's dramatic existentialist play “No Exit,” which is Theatre UNO’s first production of the spring semester. The play, directed by University of New Orleans theatre professor David Hoover, opens Friday at the Robert E. Nims Lab Theatre located on campus.
Was there truly 'no exit' from humanity’s existential predicament, as Sartre posits in Huis-Close? Was the meaning of life a hellish nihilism? Such questions confronted intellectuals amidst the crisis of the Cold War that defined both the era of Existentialism. the decline of a front-rank philosopher to the status of a hired-gun propagandist for the communist bloc
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