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Western Washington University theater students are trying to cancel their department’s fall play since their “identities” were “grossly misrepresented in this decision.”

In addition to “trigger warnings” for sexual harassment and “inappropriate portrayals of gender and sexuality,” the students are concerned that depictions of isolation would be “mentally taxing” due to recent COVID-19 quarantines.

> Western Washington University theater students are trying to cancel their department’s fall play since their “identities” were “grossly misrepresented in this decision.” > In addition to “trigger warnings” for sexual harassment and “inappropriate portrayals of gender and sexuality,” the students are concerned that depictions of isolation would be “mentally taxing” due to recent COVID-19 quarantines.

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I'm not familiar with the play but reading the Britannica summary it sounds interesting and thought provoking. Likely has some unfortunate truths about life in there.

I always get a laugh out of 'trigger warnings'. Guess what princess, life can be triggering. The sooner you learn to cope with it, the happier you will be.

Jean-Paul Sartre’s "No Exit": A BBC Adaptation Starring Harold Pinter (1964) (youtu.be)

No Exit, one-act philosophical drama by Jean-Paul Sartre, performed in 1944 and published in 1945. Its original, French title, Huis clos, is sometimes also translated as In Camera or Dead End. The play proposes that “hell is other people” rather than a state created by God.

The play begins with a bellman ushering three recently deceased people into a room. They are Garcin, a revolutionary who betrayed his own cause and wants to be reassured that he is not a coward; Estelle, a nymphomaniac who has killed her illegitimate child; and Inez, a predatory lesbian. All the characters require another person for self-definition, yet each is most attracted to the person most likely to discomfit. Their inability to escape from each other guarantees their eternal torture.