ABANDON ALL HOPE
Full-length dark comedy for 4 actors (2f/2m). It's basically NO EXIT if Sartre was raised Baptist. Opened Off-Broadway in 2023.
4 Actors (2F/2M), 85 mins
Recommended Audience: Ages 14+
Compare to: No Exit, The Good Place
Full-length. Basically No Exit if Jean-Paul Sartre was raised Baptist. When three college freshmen (a scrappy feminist, a naïve evangelical, and a cocky analyst) meet in Hell—which appears as a dorm room—a fun-loving demon forces them to play a game with eternal stakes: The winner goes to Heaven. The others are tortured for eternity.
Abandon All Hope saw its world premiere Off-Broadway at Theatre Row as part of the 2023 Rogue Theater Festival, directed by Gorman Ruggiero. Currently open to licensing for professional, community, or university productions.
Abandon All Hope is slated to have a Community & School Edition available to read upon request and produce ONLY with a cast of Amateur Performers, expected to be ready in early 2026.
Digital perusal copies of the full script are available to members of New Play Exchange or you can read a sample of Abandon All Hope below:
