Winni Players to perform staged reading of ‘No Exit’

MEREDITH — The Winni Players, Winnipesaukee Playhouse’s community theater group, will perform a staged reading of Jean-Paul Sartre’s play “No Exit” on Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 6 p.m. at Meredith Public Library. The production is most remembered for its quote “Hell is other people.”

“No Exit” tells the story of two women and one man who are locked up together for eternity in one hideous room in hell. The windows are bricked up, there are no mirrors, the electric lights can never be turned off, and there is no exit. The irony of this hell is that its torture is not of the rack and fire, but of the burning humiliation of each soul as it is stripped of its pretenses by the cruel curiosity of the damned. Here the soul is shorn of secrecy, and even the blackest deeds are mercilessly exposed to the fierce light of hell. It is an eternal torment.

Playwright Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded, but declined, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964.

Refreshments will be available during the play courtesy of the Friends of the Meredith Library.

For more information, visit meredithlibrary.org.