No Exit: Audio Play Screening
A Collaboration between English Literary Association and Dramatics Society of LSR
The LSR Dramatics Society, in collaboration with the English Literary Association, presented, on the 12th of November 2021, an (online) adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existentialist play No Exit (1944), that depicts the experience of ‘Hell’ (which it famously concludes is “other people”) of its three central characters who are locked inside a room together for ‘eternity’.
The Audio Play production undertaken was directed by students Gaurangi Sehgal and Pihu Kalra, and featured other members of the Society in lead roles. It was presented on screen on google meet, and later put up on YouTube and Spotify.
The performance was followed by a conversation between the actors and organisers, and the audience, in which was discussed the experiences of the logistics of putting up an audio play, the implications of organising, acting, and viewing such a production during the troubling times of a global pandemic, and ended with reminisce on the part of a few members of the Society of their work done together in the energetic physical space of the College, on earlier productions, and their hope to return to the same.
The Audio Play production undertaken was directed by students Gaurangi Sehgal and Pihu Kalra, and featured other members of the Society in lead roles. It was presented on screen on google meet, and later put up on YouTube and Spotify.
The performance was followed by a conversation between the actors and organisers, and the audience, in which was discussed the experiences of the logistics of putting up an audio play, the implications of organising, acting, and viewing such a production during the troubling times of a global pandemic, and ended with reminisce on the part of a few members of the Society of their work done together in the energetic physical space of the College, on earlier productions, and their hope to return to the same.
Written by Meher Nandrajog