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The ideas of self-created hell and of each person being responsible for dooming or saving him or herself make the machinations between the three characters more intriguing—they are not static torture to which they have been committed by a higher authority, but the means by which they can bring themselves out of torture.
In discussion between audience and cast afterwards, Kolak pointed out that Sartre often spoke through the least likely character—Estelle, who was interpreted in this production as a superficial and giggly bit of fluff. While Garcon was the closest biographically to Sartre himself and Inez was the most ready to accept herself as she was, Estelle voiced the theories: “We’ve never been so alive as we are right now;” “I can’t get inside your head— it’s you....” Kolak compared these distilled statements to what he called “California philosophy:”' pronouncements that appear superficial in their simplicity but which really deal accurately with issues that are too complex to break down.
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