news | Monday March 21, 2011

Electric Company Theatre's Production of No Exit at ACT, San Francisco

A mysterious valet ushers three people into a shabby hotel room. As the door locks behind them, an eternity of damnation lies ahead. What they soon discover is that hell isn’t fire and brimstone at all – it’s other people. No Exit, Jean Paul Sartre’s 1944 existential classic, adapted from the French by Paul Bowles, is skillfully re-imagined as a series of hidden cameras turn the stage into a cinema, and the audience into voyeurs as a meticulously staged live film takes place before your eyes. The result is a highly entertaining, live-mixed thriller that amplifies the psychology of three slightly-offstage performances by leveraging the techniques of cinema to deliver a high-impact stage experience.

Lucia Frangione is starring in No Exit from April 7 through May 1, 2011.