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No Exit: Out of the Mouths of Babes

Want to know what No Exit is all about? Check out this video report by Evelyn, distinguished five-year-old theater critic and daughter of Miguel Ongpin, head carpenter at A.C.T. —The A.C.T. Intern Blog Quadrumvirate Video courtesy Miguel Ongpin

Capturing No Exit

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posted by Nina Fujikawa, Graphic Designer  How do you get people to see a show? This question, like it or not, lies at the heart of the theatrical creative process. Theater can’t exist without an audience. And as much as we who make live theater like to grumble about the lengths we have to go to to attract patrons, there’s a lot to be learned from asking: What is this show about, and why would someone want to see it? In this visual post, A.C.T. Graphic Designer Nina Fujikawa gives us a glimpse of what it’s like to distill an hour-and-a-half theatrical experience into a one-page poster that expresses the essence of The Virtual Stage and Electric Company Theatre’s live-cinema interpretation of Sartre’s existential classic No Exit . —The A.C.T. Intern Blog Quadrumvirate No Exit opens at A.C.T. this week, the culmination of a many-months-long (years for some) creative process that I, in a very small but visible way, got to be a part of. I was charged with creating the show art fo...