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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Exit...

Author: By Deborah E. Copaken, | Title: Professional Existentialism | 11/21/1986 | See Source »

Three's Company gives television viewers a chance to see Jack in cohabitation with two sexy women. What fun they have--hanging out at the Regal Beagle and playing tricks on Mr. Furley. Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit also presents us with a man living with two women. But the members of this trio aren't as happy because they're dead and in Hell...

Author: By Deborah E. Copaken, | Title: Professional Existentialism | 11/21/1986 | See Source »

...Exit's characters, however, though damned and deceased, are far more entertaining than even the talented Suzanne Somers wearing shorts...

Author: By Deborah E. Copaken, | Title: Professional Existentialism | 11/21/1986 | See Source »

...Hell is other people," complains Garcin (David Sonnenberg), the male of the group. And he's right, because in the existential subterranean setting of Sartre the characters simply cannot escape the company of one another. There is just no exit to which they can run. Garcin, Inez (Lyra Barrera) and Estelle (Jacqueline Sloan) are imprisoned together, in a small and tastelessly furnished room, for eternity...

Author: By Deborah E. Copaken, | Title: Professional Existentialism | 11/21/1986 | See Source »

...true strength of this particular production of No Exit, however, lies in the raw talent of its actors and the sophisticated directorial influence upon them. These performances smack of professionalism. When Barrera's biting tongue exclaims, "I can't get on without making other people suffer," we believe her. Heck, we cringe at her every caustic outburst...

Author: By Deborah E. Copaken, | Title: Professional Existentialism | 11/21/1986 | See Source »

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