In a 1946 review, Stark Young wrote in The New Republic that No Exit “should be seen whether you like it or not.” If that description of a locked-room confession plot reminds you of a certain episode of a certain contemporary television show, you are on the money. Each is surprised that eternal damnation is like this. In No Exit, three sinners are locked in a room together. That phrase is the equivalent of the English legal term “in camera,” which is Latin for “in the chamber”-in a closed room, away from the media. Jean Paul Sartre’s play No Exit, famous for the line “Hell is other people,” is titled Huis Clos in French.
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