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Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit

No Exit: A Live-Cinematic Interpretation

Nenad Stevanovic photo. Andy Thompson illustration. Sandra Zarkovic logo design.

A Live-Cinematic Interpretation from Director Kim Collier

the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre's classic masterpiece
co-produced by The Virtual Stage and The Electric Company
starring Lucia Frangione, Laara Sadiq, Andy Thompson and Jonathon Young

May 1 - 10, 2008

At The Hangar in the Centre for Digital Media (577 Great Northern Way)

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In Detail

The Virtual Stage and Electric Company Theatre present the live-cinematic interpretation of French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous masterpiece No Exit May 1 to 10 at The Hangar at the Centre for Digital Media. Directed by Electric Company Theatre’s award-winning director Kim Collier, No Exit features Lucia Frangione (Espresso, Cariboo Magi) as Estelle, Laara Sadiq (Pink Sugar, Hecuba) as Inez, Andy Thompson (The Fall, Reading Hebron) as Garcin, and Jonathon Young (Palace Grand, Tideline) as The Valet. In Kim Collier’s vision, the characters are literally locked up together and the viewer voyeuristically participates in their isolation through cinematic-style live projection.

The hotel room where Sartre’s three characters must endure each other’s company for eternity is situated inside a cement bunker in “The Hangar”, a cavernous warehouse space at the Centre for Digital Media. Their entrapment will be intensified as the actors will be literally confined within the four walls of the tiny room. Through a series of hidden cameras audiences will be able to watch with cinematic intimacy, a meticulously staged live film of what goes on inside the box. Inhabiting the space between the audience and the giant movie screens is the play's minor character, The Valet (Jonathon Young). By revealing the Valet’s off-stage world outside the confines of the hotel room, the frame on Sartre’s play is widened - possibly finding an exit to a classic play about eternal damnation.

No Exit is directed by Electric Company’s Kim Collier with Set Design by Jay Gower Taylor, Lighting Design and Technical Direction by John Webber, Costume Design by Kirsten McGhie, Video Design by Andy Thompson, Sound Design by Brian Linds and Jan Hodgson as Stage Manager. No Exit logo and ad design by Sandra Zarkovic. Director of Photography and Video Technician is Bojan Bodruzic.


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Sponsors

Consulat General de France ŕ Vancouver Government of British Columbia The Hamber Foundation Georgia Straight / Clark's Audio Visual British Columbia Arts Council Phillips Brewing Company City of Vancouver The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University Canada Council for the Arts