
The Visit (1958) - repro
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s monumental tragicomic masterpiece 'The Visit' (masterfully adapted by Maurice Valency) completed a legendary original Broadway premiere at the newly opened Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in 1958, running for an astonishing 189 performances. The claustrophobic, intellectually fierce tragedy chronicles Claire Zachanassian, an unimaginably wealthy multi-millionaire widow who returns to her impoverished provincial hometown to execute a calculated campaign of corporate corruption, offering a massive fortune to the citizens in exchange for the murder of her former lover, starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

