The Visit

ABOUT THE PLAY

The world made a whore of me, and now I will make a brothel of the world.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt's internationally acclaimed play The Visit uses humour and irony to examine the corruptibility of the modern world. Billionaire Claire Zachanassian, the “richest woman in the world”, returns to Güllen, the now impoverished town where she was born.

As a young woman, she became pregnant by Alfred Ill, who denied paternity in court with the help of a bribed witness. Claire now makes the destitute townspeople an extraordinarily generous offer: she will give them a billion if one of them kills her former lover and justice is finally done.

At first, the people of Güllen insist they are too civilised to accept. Gradually, however, they begin to wonder whether their decaying town should not be civilised first. Zachanassian knows her truth and waits. Directed by Adam Steinbauer, this brilliantly written comedy—or rather grotesque tragicomedy—ultimately sends a chill down the spine.

CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM

Claire Zachanassian – Renáta Klemensová
Her husbands (VII, VIII, IX) – Petr Pěnkava, guest
Butler – Vladislav Georgiev
Toby – Jan Chudý
Roby – Jan Lefner, guest
Koby – Daniel Hrůza, guest
Loby – Tomáš Matušinec, guest
Ill – Martin Siničák, guest
and others

author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
translation: Jiří Stach
director: Adam Steinbauer
dramaturgy and adaptation: Tomáš Vůjtek
music: Martin Srpek Konvička
set design: Magdaléna Teleky
costumes: Karolína Konvička Srpková
lighting design: Jonáš Garaj
movement consultant: Tomáš Sukup