Jean-Paul Sartre's 'No Exit' Coming To Several Newton Locations

NEWTON, MA — If existentialism is right up your proverbial alley, don't miss the upcoming month-long run of Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit" with performances held across Newton. Or do; the choice is yours.

The new production from Newton Nomadic Theater is set to premiere Saturday, Feb. 29, at 7:30 p.m. at the Auburndale. It will be followed Sunday, March 1, by a matinee performance at 3 p.m.

During its month-long run, performances of the play will be held at the home of Steve Siegel & Theresa St. John in Waban, the Weston Art & Innovation Center, Belmont-Watertown UMC, Union Church in Waban, Gregorian Rugs in Newton Lower Falls and Gaherins Pub & Restaurant in Upper Falls.

Some have speculated "No Exit" inspired NBC's hit show "The Good Place," in which four strangers are sent to a purgatory of sorts to torture each other with their conflicting personalities and desires.

Similarly, Sartre's one-act drama, written in 1944, places three recently dead people in a room, each designed to discomfit another.

Encyclopedia Britannica states: "Their inability to escape from each other guarantees their eternal torture." In short, the play proposes that "hell is other people," not a physical place of torture.

In this production of "No Exit," Newton Nomadic Theater regular Noni Lewis has returned as director and choreographer. Linda Goetz, Matt Winberg, Sarah Morrisette and newcomer Slava Tchoul comprise the cast.

You can purchase "No Exit" tickets online.