Hell is other people?

Performance of Huis Clos/ No Exit: Two staged readings
Tuesday, November 29-30 / 8:00 PM / Free
UCSB Studio Theatre, Snidecor 1101

In celebration of the enduring legacy of French Existential philosopherJean-Paul Sartre, the UCSB Department of Dramatic Art will perform Huis Clos (No Exit). Sartre's No Exit, published in 1943, was written as a one-act play so that theatergoers would not be kept past the German-imposed curfew. Many forms of entertainment, including plays, had to be approved by German censors. During rehearsals, clearance to perform the play was given and taken away several times before the first performance in May 1944 just before liberation of Paris.

Professor Irwin Appel directed the staged readings of the play. Actors will present a brand-new translation written by Dramatic Art Ph.D. candidate Adrienne MacIain, who has also translated the work of playwright Anoma Kanie of Cote d'Ivoire, and has seen her original dramatic works performed, both in English and French, on three continents.

http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/events/current/huis.html