INFO & SYNOPSIS

Two women and one man are locked up together for eternity in one hideous room in hell. The windows are bricked up; there are no mirrors; the electric lights can never be turned off; and there is no exit. The irony of this hell is that its torture is not of the rack and fire, but of the burning humiliation of each soul as it is stripped of its pretenses by the cruel curiosity of the damned. Here the soul is shorn of secrecy, and even the blackest deeds are mercilessly exposed to the fierce light of hell. It is an eternal torment.

This production will use a newly translated and adapted script. The script was first published in French in May 1944. As part of an independent study combining his interests in theatre and French, Logan Jones translated this new adaptation of this widely praised existentialist play.

JOSEPH GARCIN

Male; a coward; unfaithful to his wife; a journalist from Rio; fled during a military conflict; shot to death by twelve bullets

INÈS SERRANO

Female; a lesbian; a postal clerk; accepts and acknowledges that she belongs in hell; caused a woman to leave her husband, who died chasing her; killed by her lover who turned on the gas while they slept; manipulates the others in hell; tormented by her lust/love for Estelle

ESTELLE RIGAULT

Female; blonde; younger than Inès; high society woman; married an older man for his money; had an affair and a baby with a younger man; drowned her child in a lake, which made the younger man commit suicide; she refuses to accept that she belongs in hell; lusts for Garcin

LE GARÇON

Male; has atrophied eyelids; his uncle is the head valet/bellboy in hell; he brings the other three characters into their room

AUDITION INFO

Please prepare a one-minute dramatic monologue. Come to the initial audition and callbacks prepared to read sides from the script.