Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris hosted the first performance of No Exit in May 1944. This production marked the debut of Jean-Paul Sartre's famous play about three dead souls trapped together.
Jean-Paul Sartre declared that hell is other people to explain how human relationships function without divine judgment or physical torture. The phrase represents a philosophical statement about consciousness where each character sees himself through the eyes of others and loses his own sense of self.
Joseph Garcin was executed for refusing to fight in an unnamed war while Inèz Serrano turned a wife against her husband leading to death. Estelle Rigault drowned their child off a hotel balcony into the sea which drove the father to commit suicide.
Claude Dauphin played Garcin while Ruth Ford portrayed Estelle and Annabella took the role of Inèz in this Paul Bowles translation. John Huston directed the production that ran for three weeks during 1946.
The BBC aired a radio production in 1946 featuring Alec Guinness, Donald Pleasence, Betty Ann Davies, and Beatrix Lehmann. Margery Gerbain and Joan Swinstead translated the script for this broadcast.