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...should be a determiner of life rather than a victim," says the Hub Theatre Company. In Sartre's No Exit, the characters have already gone beyond the point where they can make such a choice; they are in a place where there is no rest, no dreaming, no death; they are in hell...
...Exit is a masterful work. Its greatest value lies in how the philosophical and the dramatic fit together; Sartre can sell his own peculiar brand of existentialism and still have a tightly written dramatic statement. The Hub Theatre is aware of the danger of philosophic overkill; they fortunately let Sartre's philosophy stand unaided. But No Exit as drama is a strong play, demanding strong acting and strong direction. With one exception, the Hub fails to provide this strength...
What happens in the Hub production is that the three condemned play isolated from each other. Although the characters must meet their fates on their own, Sartre's play requires a community of desperation: Yes, they are in hell, yes, they are in hell forever, yes, they are in hell forever together. When Garcin says at the end, "Well, let's get on with it..."it should be clear to the audience that this is the only choice they have, that there is nothing else they can do. Instead, it sounds like an invitation to the cast-audience discussion afterwards...
...From 1957 to 1960, Cushman served as Assistant for National Security Affairs to then Vice President Nixon. When Nixon assumed the presidency eight years later, he appointed Cushman to the CIA, where his chief responsibility was to represent the agency on the United States Intelligence Board, which is the hub of the U.S. intelligence-gathering network...
Fifteen Demands. The outbreak began in an auditorium at the hub of the sprawling, X-shaped penitentiary. A few more than 550 of Rahway's 1,143 prisoners were attending a regular movie screening on Thanksgiving Eve. Making It had just concluded when an inmate leaped onto the stage and launched into an angry speech denouncing the injustice of the prison system and society at large. He asked anyone who did not want to join a revolt to leave the hall immediately. Only 150 inmates stayed. Warden U. Samuel Vukcevich arrived to try to calm the disturbance, but within...