The Visit A TragiComedy Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt, Patrick Bowles (Translator) One of the major German-language dramatists of the twentieth century and the author of such widely performed works as "The Physicists" and "Romulus the Great," Friedrich Durrenmattis one of the most signifcant playwrights of our time. This is the first complete English translation of what many critics consider his fines... more »t play, and it adheres faithfully to the original.
Durrenmatt once wrote of himself, "I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness," and "The Visit" is a consummate, alarming Durrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo. The play takes place "somewhere in Central Europe," and tells of an elderly millionairess who, merely on the promise of her millions, swiftly turns a depressed area into a boom town. But the condtion attached to her largesse, which the locals learn of only after they are enmeshed, is murder. Durrenmatt has fashioned a macabre and entertaining parable that is a scathing indictment of the power of greed.« less