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Sartre's vision of hell goes up in smoke | John Crace by John Crace

A new production transposes Sartre's existential ennui to the trauma of Argentina's Dirty War, but where are the fireworks?"Hell is other people" says Garcin towards the end of Sartre's play, Huis Clos (No Way Out). Maybe, maybe not. But Sartre is a tough act to pull off these days. His savagery and sexuality have been rendered commonplace, his existentialism has been sanitised and an audience's willingness to be sho…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AM on May 2, 2018

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