"Have you ever wondered where the damned souls on earth end up? If the fiery pit of eternal torment that has pervaded so much of our art and imagination really exists? This May, Jean-Paul Sartre offers a sardonic and intensive look behind the veil of earthly reality and through the closed doors of hell itself. However, what you find there might just surprise you, for Sartre’s version of hell may not at all be what you imagine. It may just be worse…
Written during the heart of WWII, Sartre’s French existential play follows the fates of three damned souls living in the 1940s. Cradeau, a pacifistic journalist, Inez, a lesbian postal clerk, and Estelle, a high-society woman, have all been sentenced to hell, ushered into a seemingly normal room, and locked in. To their surprise and suspicion however, instead of fire and brimstone, they find that all they have to deal with for the rest of eternity is each other…"
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Studio 16 | 1555 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver | May 6-10, 2014 | Tue-Sat at 8pm | Tickets $15/10/12 for General/Student/UBC Alumni | Tuesday, May 6th Pay-What-You-Can at door |Purchase tickets online at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/626113 or at the door |*Note: Cash only at door| Email aenigmatheatre@gmail.com for more information.
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