National Theatre

Lesley Manville introduces the play and her character, Claire Zachanassian, the world's richest woman, who returns to her crumbling home town to seek revenge. Jeremy Herrin (This House) directs a cast including Lesley Manville as the ruthless heiress and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix) as her former lover, in Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s visionary revenge play, transported into mid-20th-century America by Tony Kushner (Angels in America).