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Alex Fancy, a professor at Mount Allison University, is directing the last mainstage show for Tintamarre, the university’s bilingual theatre group responsible for about 111 productions, at the Motyer-Fancy Theatre. He first directed a production at Mount A in 1968.

Exit ’26 incorporates scenes from Huis-clos, the first play Alex Fancy ever directed

Hannah Rudderham · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 04, 2026 2:08 PM EST | Last Updated: 17 minutes ago

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A sepia-coloured photo of a man reading a book, wearing a plaid jacket and polka-dotted tieAlex Fancy, Mount Allison professor emeritus, is pictured in 1978, a decade after he staged his first production. (Mount Allison Library Archives)

In February 1968, a production of Huis-clos, called No Exit in English, was staged in Beethoven Hall at Mount Allison University.

Now, 58 years later, the man who started it all has reimagined the Jean-Paul Sartre play in the theatre troupe’s last mainstage production.

Alex Fancy, professor emeritus at Mount Allison University, is directing the last mainstage show for Tintamarre, the university’s bilingual theatre group responsible for more than 110 productions, at the Motyer-Fancy Theatre.

“Whenever we’ve begun a project, we’ve started to create a play,

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