The Visit - Durrenmatt, Friedrich

PLAYS DRAMA THEATER 1950s SWISS IMPOVERISHED SMALL TOWN MONEY WEALTH DEATH MURDER LOVE VENGEANCE
Near Fine
Soft cover
Grove Press
2010
New York, NY
1 For Sale
9.95
Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; Gullen's residents boast that Brahms composed a quartet when he visited and Goethe once slept there, but by the time of Durrenmatt's The Visit, the town has fallen on hard times, its factories shuttered, and its residents living on the dole. When prodigal daughter Claire returns, the townspeople hope the millionaress, traveling with an entourage that includes three husbands, blind eunuchs, and a black panther, offers them a Faustian bargain and it becomes clear that the town's financial salvation will come with a high moral price, Durrenmatt's play has the sweep of a Greek tragedy set in a contemporary, dying industrial town; its unemployed serving as a chorus for our age. When the world's richest woman makes an offer that is hard to refuse, we witness "a community slowly yielding to temptation" and what was at first unthinkable comes to be seen as inevitable. P65 Plays