The Electric Theater Company’s stunning production of Jean Paul Sartre’s existentialist play Huis Clos (No Exit) came to San Francisco, courtesy of the American Conservatory Theater. After rave reviews in Canada, the play opened to unanimous approbation at the Geary Theater. The play has been enacted much and thrice translated to film. But director Kim Collier manages to bring a unique perspective to familiar material.
Three people are ushered sequentially into a hotel room by a mysterious valet. They go in to find a room bereft of any furnishings but curtains that hide a window that is bricked in, and three chairs. They must then confront each other, their own inner demons, and the burden of their misdeeds. Vincent Cradeau (Andy Thompson) is the first one in, followed by Inez Serrano (Laura Saadiq) and then Estelle Rigault (Lucia Frangione). They believe that torture instruments and real hell awaits them beyond this place, and the Valet (Jonathon Young) is a mere bell ring away!
As they first posture and plead ignorance as to why they are even here, later they start to unravel and reveal each others’ past sins, and unpleasant lives, so much so that staying in the room together seems intolerable.
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