When the entire play takes place in a claustrophobic room which is to be designated as hell, you know you’re not exactly in for a fun ride.

But while Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit can be almost excruciating at times in its bleakness, it makes for a fairly compelling night of theater. And Scena Theater’s current rendition, a reprisal from another take not too long ago, is a faithful take with relatively few missteps.

In the work, we’ve got a masochistic lesbian, a self-involved socialite and a journalist entirely lacking in character, not exactly a group one might be eager to spend time with; after all, they did end up in hell. But we’re not talking the fire and brimstone version. “Hell is other people” has almost become a cliche at this point, but there’s nothing inane about the way Sartre deftly makes each character into the other’s torturer.