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Inès, Estelle and Garcin only have guesses as to why they ended up in this hell together: an interior space without windows and mirrors. Walled in as high as a tower, only occasionally visited by a quirky waiter. an outside? Doesn't exist here. Even the eyelids are paralyzed; the place threatens to be awake all the time, without the redeeming "black flashes" of blinking. Why were these three people, who never met in life, crammed together here? What guilt brought her here? Are they already holding the torture instruments for the others without knowing it?

Jean-Paul Sartre's classic of existentialism, premiered in Paris in 1944 under the rule of the National Socialists, is not only a key work for understanding Sartre's philosophy of freedom, which revolves around the question of how the gaze of others defines us against our will. CLOSED SOCIETY is also a play about uncertainty, about being locked in and isolation, about a changed perception of time that weighs leadenly over people and things in a present stretched out to eternity. In this respect, it has stored valuable knowledge, which we surprisingly find ourselves in when looking back at the past few years.

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