Cavegirl Productions is delighted to bring back its premier production, Ellipsis, a modern adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic existentialist play “No Exit”, for ten performances at DCs arts festival, Art-O-Matic 2002, after a very successful run this past spring at multiple locations within the Baltimore/DC metro area. The play was written and directed by Kelley Slagle.

Hell is a vast and Byzantine bureaucracy. In its infernal logic it gives no notice or quarter to human perception. For every Stalin or Hitler we imagine tortured on bloodthirsty racks, the reality of Hell is in fact much simpler.

Picture this: You are placed in a shabbily furnished and discomforting room, surrounded by people whom you do not know nor care for. Your only other company is that of small flashes of the life you left behind passing before you -- the tormenting thoughts of your own sins and frailties. There is no sleep, no release, and no escape.

In our single room we meet Dr. Joseph Garcin: a charming, handsome and intelligent man whose disarming demeanor hides a selfish and petulant adolescent. His foil and antagonist is Inez Serrano, a streetwise lesbian whose bitter, narcissistic worldview is edged with cutting wit and withering sarcasm. And finally, there is Estelle Rigault -- a childlike beauty, a spoiled princess, and a stark, unflinching social predator.

Three people… Three sins… One Hell.

Ellipsis and Cavegirl Productions were featured as an Artifact in the Washington City Paper in March of this year. Read the article.