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...Visit of the Old Lady: A Tragicomedy of Love and Rapid Economic Growth--by Friedrich Durrenmatt. Directed by Richard Nash. Loeb Mainstage...
...Visit of the Old Lady: A Tragicomedy of Love and Rapid Economic Growth--by Friedrich Durrenmatt. Directed by Richard Nash. Loeb Mainstage...
...child. There is one catch: the townspeople must murder their popular mayor-elect. In his youth he seduced and abandoned a poor girl so he could marry a little money. Now old and rich, she wants vengeance. She believes everyone has a price, and she is right. Friedrich Durrenmatt's morality play THE VISIT seemed shockingly cynical when the Lunts brought it to Broadway in the '50s. In a sad measure of the disillusioning years since, it now triumphs as a comedy. Harris Yulin is fine as the betrayer and Jane Alexander dazzling as the raddled revenger. But the real...
...even the Swiss can resist making disparaging remarks about themselves and their country. Poet Carl Spitteler claimed that if the Swiss had created the Alps, they would not have been so high. Playwright Friedrich Durrenmatt noted that his country's vaunted neutrality "makes me think of a virgin who earns her living in a bordello but wants to remain chaste." Not surprisingly, the Swiss celebrated the septicentennial of their confederation this month with restraint...
...times lines get caught in the cross-fire or slip into obviousness, the production is on the whole masterfully staged and acted. Play Strindberg is no great achievement; Durrenmatt's original works stand far above it and deserve more stagings of their own. But it is a solid piece of comedy and at the New Theater brings first rate professional drama to Harvard Square...