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  • playwright: Friedrich Duerrenmatt
  • Opening Date May 5 1958
  • Closing Date Nov 29 1958
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Written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (translated by Maurice Valency)

Thurs 20th February - Sat 22nd February & Mon 24th February - Sat 29th February 1992

Directed by Jacquie Penrose

Would you sacrifice a friend for money? Of course you wouldn't. Even though times are so very hard. Even though a millionaire comes to visit and offers fabulous sums in return for..... But of course you wouldn't. Would you?

Author Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich dürrenmatt (1921 - 1990).

Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theater whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. His work included avant-garde dramas, philosophically deep crime novels, and often macabre satire. He much admired the drama of Brecht and Thornton Wilder, but adapted the former's celebrated "alienation technique" to his own puposes; to produce the grotesque and farcical.

Born in near Berne, the son of a Protestant parson, he studied philosophy and German language and literature at both Zurich and Berne universitites. He never graduated but spent much of his time in paininting and sketching. Imediately after the war, in Basle, he made ends meet by writing short stories and cabaret sketches.

In 1945-46, Dürrenmatt wrote his first play 'It Is Written', which premiered to great controversy. The story of the play revolves around a battle between a sensation-craving cynic and a religious fanatic who takes scripture literally, all of this taking place while the city they live in is under siege. The play's opening night in April, 1947, caused fights and protests in the audience. His first major success was the play 'Romulus the Great'. Set in the year A.D. 476, this play explores the last days of the Roman Empire, presided over, and brought about by its last emperor. Probably his best-know work is 'The Visit' written in 1956 which centres around the theme of whether or not justice can be bought. In 1946, he married the actress Lotti Geissler who died in 1983 after which, Dürrenmatt married again in 1984 to another actress, Charlotte Kerr.

Translator Maurice Valency

Maurice valency (1903 - 1996).

Maurice Valency was a playwright, author, critic, and popular professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University, best known for his award winning adaptations of plays by Jean Giraudoux and Friedrich Dürrenmatt. He also wrote television plays, adaptations of librettos, novels, and academic works on Chekhov, Strindberg, Ibsen and Shaw. In addition to his translations of plays, Valency is probably best known for his book 'The Flower and the Castle: An Introduction to Modern Drama'. In 1936 Valency married the artist Janet Cornell; they remained married for 60 years until Valency's death at the age of 93

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Play The Visit

'The Visit' is a tragi-comedy, originally entitled 'Der Besuch der alten Dame' and was written in 1956. It premiered in Zurich that year and went on to be produced in Paris and on Broadway. The play raises the question of the corruptibility of justice by asking whether it can be exchanged for material wealth.

The story opens with the town of Gullen awaiting the arrival of millionaire and previous Gullen inhabitant, Claire Zachanassian. The town is in a state of disrepair, and the residents are suffering considerable hardship and poverty. The task of convincing Claire to make a donation has fallen to Anton Schill who co-incidentally was also once Claire's lover. Initially the meeting goes well, and Claire announces that she will make a donation of one billion dollars, half for the town and half to be shared among the families. The townspeople are overjoyed, but their joy is short-lived when Claire's conditions for the donation are revealed. Needing to exact revenge over Schill, for his denial of paternity of her child (who later died) and over the town who produced two false witnesses and drove her away at the time, she declares that her donation is conditional on Schill's death. The Mayor initially refuses but the play follows what happens as more and more pressure is brought to bear, and we see first-hand, how everything, including justice, can be bought.

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This play was staged at Havant Arts Centre, East Street Havant - Bench Theatre's home since 1977.

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Programme notes.

"Nothing will damage this comedy (which ends tragically) more than deadly seriousness."

"Tragedy assumes the presence of guilt, trouble, moderation, the overview, responsibility. In the mess that is our century, this cleaning out of the white race, there are no longer any guilty men, nor are there any to be held responsible any more. Nobody can do anything about it and nobody wanted it to happen..... We are too collectively guilty, too collectively embedded in the sins of our fathers and our forefathers. We are only children of children. That is not our guilt, only our bad luck: guilt nowadays is a personal achievement only, a religious deed. Only the comedy can reach us now."

"Now being Swiss isn't as easy as people think..... To survive this fate unharmed needs a virtue that most of us don't process, namely, the ability to laugh at ourselves."

Friedrich Dürrenmatt on 'The Visit', on 20th Century Theatre, on being Swiss

The News Anita Silk

Revenge is sweet send-up.

Casting in the Bench Theatre Company's production of 'The Visit' was spot on - everyone looked the part with some fine character acting and hilarious send-ups.

The production was a brave and successful attempt at something unusual by an amateur company. Jude Salmon as Claire Zachanassian gave a faultless performance and a cold and calculating woman who returns for revenge on her native town of Gullen.

The town, who hounded her out for bearing an illegitimate child, is deep in recession. With billions to spend she can save them but her demands on the town are perverse and as the tension rises so does the humour. Compelling viewing. The production continues until February 29.

The News, 21st February 1992

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after opening as the Globe Theater in 1910, this site was renamed the Lunt-Fontanne Theater in 1957

Opened in 1910 as the Globe Theater, this venue has staged multiple productions involving major LGBT performers and creators, including Barbara Stanwyck, Lorenz Hart, Oliver Smith, Mary Martin, Robert Mackintosh, Jerry Herman, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Marlene Dietrich, among others.

In 1957, the building was renamed the Lunt-Fontanne Theater for actors Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, a Broadway couple who had one of the most famous “lavender marriages” (in which one or both partners in a marriage are gay) of their time.

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Playbill cover for The Visit with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, 1958.

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John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton in Much Ado About Nothing , 1959.

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Marlene Dietrich in concert, 1964.

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Poster for Raisin , 1975.

Globe Theater This venue opened as the Globe Theater in 1910. The Globe had a number of plays with LGBT associations:

  • The Slim Princess  (1911), with costume design by  Percy Anderson
  • The Harp of Life (1916-17), with actors Laurette Taylor  and  Lynn Fontanne
  • Out There (1917), with actors Laurette Taylor  and  Lynn Fontanne
  • Jack and Jill (1923), with costume design by Robert Locher and others, and with actor Clifton Webb
  • Keep Kool (1924), with actor Ruby Stevens  (who later changed her name to  Barbara Stanwyck ) in the ensemble
  • No Foolin’ (1926), with actor Peggy Fears
  • She’s My Baby  (1928), with lyrics by  Lorenz Hart , and with actors  Beatrice Lillie  and  Clifton Webb
  • George White’s Scandals  (1923), with costume design by  Erte  and Cora MacGeachy
  • Three Cheers (1928-29), with actor Patsy Kelly

Lunt-Fontanne Theater The Globe served as a movie house from 1932 to 1957. In 1957, the venue was named the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, becoming one of several Broadway theaters that have been named after LGBT persons. Alfred Lunt  and  Lynn Fontanne  were a Broadway couple who had one of the most famous “lavender marriages” (a marriage in which one or both partners are gay) of their time.

Productions with LGBT associations that were huge hits at the Lunt-Fontanne included:

  • The Sound of Music (1959-62; Best Musical Tony Award), with scenic design by Oliver Smith (Best Scenic Design Tony Award), and with actor  Mary Martin (Best Actress in a Musical Tony Award)
  • Raisin  (1975), a musical based on the play  A Raisin in the Sun  by  Lorraine Hansberry  (opened at the  46th Street Theater  – Best Musical Tony Award)
  • Beauty and the Beast  (1999-2007), with lyrics by  Howard Ashman  and Tim Rice (opened at the  Palace Theater ), and with actor Gary Beach

Other shows by LGBT creators and with LGBT performers at the Lunt-Fontanne included:

  • The Visit (1958), with actors Alfred Lunt  and  Lynn Fontanne
  • Goldilocks  (1958-59), with dancer  Michael Fesco
  • Much Ado About Nothing (revival, 1959), with actor John Gielgud
  • Little Me  (1962-63), based on a novel by  Patrick Dennis  ( Edward Everett Tanner III )
  • Luther (1964; opened at the St. James Theater ), directed by Tony Richardson
  • Ben Franklin in Paris  (1964-65), with scenic design by  Oliver Smith
  • Bajour  (1965; opened at the  Shubert Theater ), with scenic design by  Oliver Smith , and costume design by  Freddy Wittop , and with Michael Bennett as a dancer
  • Skyscraper (1965-66), with actor Charles Nelson Reilly
  • Walking Happy (1966-67), with actor  George Rose
  • Marlene Dietrich (1967), with actor Marlene Dietrich in her Broadway concert singing debut
  • How Now Dow Jones  (1967-68), with scenic design by  Oliver Smith , and costume design by  Robert Mackintosh , and with actor  Tommy Tune
  • You Know I Can’t Hear You When the Water’s Running  (1968), with scenic design by  Ed Wittstein , and with actor  George Grizzard  (opened at the  Ambassador Theater )
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum  (revival, 1972), with music and lyrics by   Stephen Sondheim
  • 6 Rms Riv Vu  (1973), with scenic design by  William Ritman  (opened at the  Helen Hayes Theater )
  • The Sunshine Boys  (1974), with costume design by  Albert Wolsky , and lighting design by Tharon Musser (opened at the  Broadhurst Theater )
  • My Fair Lady  (revival, 1976-77), with production design by  Oliver Smith , and costume design by  Cecil Beaton , with  W. Robert LaVine as special costume assistant, and also with actor George Rose  (Best Actor in a Musical Tony Award) (opened at the  St. James Theater )
  • Hello, Dolly!  (revival, 1978) by  Michael Stewart  based on the play  The Matchmaker  by  Thornton Wilder , with music and lyrics by  Jerry Herman , scenic design by  Oliver Smith , and with actor  Lee Roy Reams
  • Peter Pan  (revival, 1979-81), with actor  George Rose
  • Sophisticated Ladies (1982), with actor  Maurice Hines
  • Private Lives  (revival, 1983) by  Noel Coward
  • The Corn is Green  (revival, 1983) by  Emlyn Williams , and with scenic design by William Ritman
  • Uptown… It’s Hot  (1986), with actor  Maurice Hines
  • Smile (1986-87) by, directed by, and lyrics by  Howard Ashman , and with costume design by William Ivey Long
  • 3 Penny Opera  (revival, 1989), directed by  John Dexter
  • Hello, Dolly!  (revival, 1995-96) by  Michael Stewart , with music and lyrics by  Jerry Herman , directed and choreographed by  Lee Roy Reams , scenic design by  Oliver Smith  (his last Broadway production), and costume design by  Freddy Wittop

Entry by Jay Shockley, project director (June 2019, with multiple additions).

NOTE: Names above in bold indicate LGBT people.

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  • Architect or Builder: Carrere & Hastings
  • Year Built: 1909-10

Adam Hetrick, “The Work of Broadway’s Gay and Lesbian Artistic Community Goes on Display Nov. 14 When the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation Gallery Presents ‘StageStruck: The Magic of Theatre Design’,” Playbill , November 14, 2007.

Internet Broadway Database.

Lunt-Fontanne Theater Designation Report (New York: Landmarks Preservation Commission, 1987).

“The 1st List of: Gay/Lesbian/Bi Industry People, Both in Front and Behind the Camera,” www.imdb.com, May 31, 2013.

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The Visit , by Swiss author and playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt, premiered in 1956 at the Schauspielhaus Zürich under the German title Der Besuch der alten Dame , or The Visit of the Old Lady . Dürrenmatt’s darkly comic satiric plays are credited with helping revitalize German theatre following World War II. His writing also reveals the influence of German playwright Bertolt Brecht, notably in Dürrenmatt’s use of parables: simple stories using human characters to illustrate a lesson or moral. One of the themes Dürrenmatt explores in The Visit is the corrupting power of money.  

The play, a tragicomedy in three acts, is Dürrenmatt’s most well-known and enduring work as a dramatist. The hugely successful 1958 Broadway debut starred the famous acting married couple Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne and was staged by famous English director Peter Brooks. The play has been widely adapted, as a 1964 Hollywood film, a 1971 German opera, a 1992 Senegalese film Hyenas , a 2001 musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb, and a 2020 version by American playwright Tony Kushner that ran in London.

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The fictional small town of Guellen , located vaguely in central Europe, has fallen into poverty since the end of World War II. But fortunately for its inhabitants, famous multimillionaire Claire Zachanassian grew up in Guellen and is returning for a visit after 45 years. In hopes that Claire will share her wealth to save the town, the Mayor has planned a grand welcome. Alfred Ill , who is the most well-liked man in town and slated to become the next mayor, happens to be Claire’s long-ago lover. He is also the only person in town who knows and remembers her at all, and his help is enlisted to sweet-talk Claire into giving the town money. Claire upsets their preparations by arriving early, her seventh husband and a strange entourage in tow. She also brings, along with mountains of luggage, a coffin. Claire goes with Ill to some of the places where they trysted. She confronts Ill for ending their relationship to marry Matilda Blumhard, whose family had money and owned the town General Store. Because of Ill’s actions, Claire left Guellen and ended up working in a brothel until her first husband, a billionaire, married her. Ill claims that he did it to save Claire from staying in Guellen. Claire tells Ill that she will give the town money, and Ill excitedly accompanies her into town for a reception in her honor. After the Mayor gives an erroneous speech about her, Claire announces that she will donate a million pounds to Guellen, half of which will go to the town and the other half to be divided among the townspeople. But she has a condition, which they quiet their cheering to hear.

Claire’s butler comes forward, introducing himself as Guellen’s one-time Lord Chief Justice. Once, he arbitrated a paternity case. Claire, who was 17, was pregnant and named Ill, who was 20, as the father. But Ill paid two men to claim that they slept with her. Claire left Guellen in disgrace. The baby was taken away and died after a year. To survive, Claire was forced into sex work. She has had the two men who lied blinded and castrated, now a part of her entourage, and she wants to buy justice against Ill. She’ll give the money in exchange for someone killing Ill. The Mayor immediately rejects the offer as inhuman, but Claire says that she will wait.

Act II begins in Ill’s store, where townspeople are buying things on store credit. Although they all tell Ill that they stand with him, Ill suddenly realizes that everyone is spending extravagantly on credit, because they know that someone will follow through to get Claire’s money. Recognizing that he is being threatened, Ill goes to the Policeman , the Mayor, and then the Priest , begging each of them to help him. But they all demonstrate that they are spending money too. Terrified, Ill goes to the train station, followed by the entire town. Afraid that someone will grab him, Ill misses the train and collapses in panic. The townspeople walk away, leaving him there. In Act III, the Doctor and the Schoolmaster go to see Claire, who has just married and divorced another husband, to ask if she will invest in the town instead of giving a gift. But Claire reveals that she already owns everything in the town. She shut down the factories to create the rampant poverty.

At Ill’s store, his wife is helping customers who are still upgrading their purchases and buying on credit. Some men from town come in and decide to sit and make sure that Ill doesn’t decide to talk to the press that came to town for Claire’s wedding. The Schoolmaster, who has started drinking, nearly speaks up when reporters come into the store, but Ill, who has been hiding upstairs, stops him. After the reporters and townspeople leave, Ill comments that his family has also been buying on credit, including his son’s new car. He surprises his family by telling them to dress up to go for a drive. The Mayor comes in and tells Ill that there will be a town meeting and a vote about accepting Claire’s offer. He tries to give Ill a gun to save the town the trouble by killing himself, but Ill refuses, although he agrees to abide by the results of the vote. His family returns, and after a pleasant ride, Ill says goodbye and goes to the woods where Claire is supposed to be walking with her new husband. Ill and Claire talk about the end of their relationship and their daughter who died. Claire promises to take Ill in the coffin to a mausoleum in Capri, so he will be near her forever. Ill goes to the town meeting. The press is present, so the Mayor and Schoolmaster speak vaguely, but they finally hold a vote. Only Ill votes against taking the money. After the press leaves, the men of the town strangle Ill. The Mayor tells an errant reporter that Ill died of a heart attack from happiness. Claire gives the Mayor the check and has Ill’s body carried out and placed in the coffin. As Claire and her luggage, along with the coffin, head to the train station, the townspeople sing her praises and pray for their own good fortune.

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