John Huston directed a a Drama Critic's Award-winning adaptation of this play based on atranslation by Paul Bowles. One character in this play prefers to use the word "absent" rather than"dead," and asks another character for a mirror, to which the other responds "Suppose I try to beyour glass?" In this play, it turns out that the owner of a pacifist newspaper (*) deserted when warbroke out, an action which he is worried is cowardly. Another character, a postal clerk from Paris, isstabbed by a paper-knife at the end. This play's main characters are brought by an eyelid-less valet to aroom decorated with Second Empire furniture. For 10 points, name this play in which Estelle, Garcin, andInez learn that "hell is other
John Huston directed a a Drama Critic's Award-winning adaptation of this play based on atranslation by Paul Bowles. One character in this play prefers to use the word "absent" rather than"dead," and asks another character for a mirror, to which the other responds "Suppose I try to beyour glass?" In this play, it turns out that the owner of a pacifist newspaper (*) deserted when warbroke out, an action which he is worried is cowardly. Another character, a postal clerk from Paris, isstabbed by a paper-knife at the end. This play's main characters are brought by an eyelid-less valet to aroom decorated with Second Empire furniture. For 10 points, name this play in which Estelle, Garcin, andInez learn that "hell is other people," a work by Sartre.
John Huston directed a a Drama Critic's Award-winning adaptation of this play based on atranslation by Paul Bowles.
No Exit [or Huis Clos; or In Camera; or No Way Out; or Vicious Circle; or Behind Closed Doors; or Dead End; accept literal translations like Closed Doors ]