Word: rrenmatt
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...more central question is how philosophically bleak is Duürrenmatt's own outlook? Is his an outraged castigation or an icy judgment? Is he saying how sadly corruptible is man, or calling life itself corrupt? In any case, not since Tennessee Williams' Camino Real has a new Broadway play conveyed so fanged and carniv orous a world. But where Williams traded in the very decadence and violence he seemed at war with, The Visit, whether or not philosophically in focus, never gets dramatically out of hand...
Playwright Duürrenmatt can well afford his bucolic luxury. Almost unknown in the U.S. until The Visit (although one novel, The Judge and His Hangman, was published by Harpers in 1955, and earlier this year an off-Broadway group presented his Fools Are Passing Through), Duürrenmatt is one of the best-known and most often performed writers in mid-Europe. Last season The Visit alone had 213 performances on eleven different German stages...