No Exit and Three Other Plays

This work is a one-act play originally written in French under the title Huis Clos. It was designed for the stage and premiered in 1944 during the Nazi occupation of Paris.

This line encapsulates the existentialist concept of the Look, which describes the psychological struggle of being perceived as an object by another person's consciousness. It suggests that our identity is often trapped by the judgments and gaze of those around us.

English translations of the play have been performed and published under several different titles, including In Camera, No Way Out, Vicious Circle, Behind Closed Doors, and Dead End.