The Visit

Drama by Friedrich Durrenmatt, adapted by Maurice Valency. Characters: 25 male, 5 female, 2 children. Drop and wing frags. The Lunts chose this unforgettable play for their swan song. A wealthy woman returns to her debt-ridden hometown and offers a sum greater than they have ever imagined to help out. But there is a condition: she wants the life of a villager who years ago had caused her to be expelled from town in disgrace. Ringing denial of this absurd demand is followed by the gradual corruption of everyone in town. He is murdered, and money is passed over his body to the town. The lady leaves with a fantastic entourage and with the coffin of her old lover. Voted best foreign play of the year by the New York Drama Critics Circle. "Stinging... with astonishing power." - New York Herald Tribune. "A devastating drama." - New York Times.