Senior Drama Production - The Visit

Gullen’s residence boasts that Brahms composed a quartet when he visited and Goethe once slept there, but by the time of Friedrich Durrenmatt’s The Visit, the town has fallen on hard times, its factories shattered, and its residents living on the dole. When prodigal daughter Claire Zachanassian returns, the townspeople hope the millionairess will restore Gullen to its past glory. 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.