No Exit

Avignon OFF Festival

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  After their deaths, Garcin, Inès, and Estelle are taken to an unusual place for a reason they don't know...


 Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Author(s): Jean-Paul Sartre

Directed by: Karine Battaglia

Starring (alternating): Daniel Nettle, Elisa Perrot, Karine Battaglia, Alain Brunel

LAURETTE THEATRE AVIGNON, 14 rue Plaisance, 84000 Avignon

Access 16/18 rue Joseph Vernet

Near Place Crillon

CONTEMPORARY THEATRE – DRAMA – CLASSICAL THEATRE

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LAURETTE THEATRE AVIGNON - CONTEMPORARY THEATRE – DRAMA – CLASSICAL THEATRE

About the show:


Garcin, Inès, and Estelle have been brought together in an unusual place for a reason they don't know... Very quickly, they discover that each of their roles is to become the executioner of the other two... "Hell is other people."

"Others may try to objectify me, but they cannot steal my freedom. No Exit is at the heart of Sartrean existentialism. Once a person has chosen their actions, there is no going back. Sartre pushes this idea to its extreme: contemplating one's past life and one's absence on Earth is a form of torture for our characters..." Sartre wrote this one-act play, which he initially titled The Others, in fifteen days in 1943.


However, to consider No Exit a pessimistic play would be a mistake. No Exit is a farce with metaphysical undertones, and it owes its paradoxical nature to remaining, even today in France and abroad, one of the greatest successes of contemporary French theater. Human beings should be able to bear the consequences of their choices for eternity.


No Exit thus invites us to give meaning to our lives rather than simply enduring them. "We always die too soon – or too late. And yet life is there, over; the line is drawn, we must take stock. You are nothing other than your life"...

Poster for the show "Huis Clos" featuring four characters with blurred faces against a flamboyant orange-red background.
Stage lighting: two spotlights illuminate the center, red/blue lights are located below.
Close-up of old cinema tickets, rolled up, where the word "TICKET" can be seen. Dark background, dim lighting.
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GOING OUT IN AVIGNON

AVIGNON CITY THEATRE / GENERAL ADMISSION ROOM 1 (MAIN ROOM)


PRICES (excluding ticket office booking fees)

Normal: €22

Reduced price*: €15

The applicable price is the box office price. No "web or network promotional" prices are offered directly at the box office. Any discounts and promotional offers are announced in the press and/or on posters. Therefore, it is the responsibility of ticket holders who wish to take advantage of these offers to purchase them directly from the relevant networks and points of sale when the offer is available.


*Reduced rate (to be justified at the ticket office): student, young person under 25, unemployed, RMI/RSA, PMR**, over 65, senior card, holiday show card, intermittent show worker, pregnant woman, veteran, under 12, FNCTA (amateur theatre), conservatory student, student in professional theatre courses (La School, Simon, Florent, Perimony…), Large Family Card, Public Member Card (former Off Card).


No free admission for children of any age.

Please note: People with reduced mobility are invited to contact us by phone at 09 53 01 76 74 in order to ensure and facilitate their access to the room.

 

Target audience: General public

Language: French

Room 1 - Main Hall - "Laurette"

Avignon Festival / OFF Festival Diary

Year: 2026


Representations:

  • From July 4 to 25, 2026. Every day at 4:15 p.m., except Thursdays (no performances on July 9, 16 and 23).
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