Huis Clos

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Huis clos (Vicious Circle or No Exit, 1944) by Jean-Paul Sartre. Published by Gallimard, 1947. Three dead people are presented as in hell where they suffer torments created by the fact that they are doomed for ever to live in nerve-strung misery.

Translated into Afrikaans as In Camera by Rita Elferink. This was presented by USAT of the University of Stellenbosch at the National Arts Festival Student Drama in July 1983, directed by Ilzebet Uys, assisted by Anton Oosthuizen and stage manager Jon Phillips. The cast: Johan Laten, Altus Shröder, Amor Engelbrecht, Adriënne Oosthuizen.

Sources

World Drama by Allardyce Nicoll, 1949.

National Arts Festival programme, 1983.


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