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The Visit

or The Old Lady Comes to Call

based on the play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
adapted by Tony Kushner
original English version by Maurice Valency

From 31 January
Running Time: tbc

Olivier Theatre

The Visit or The Old Lady Comes to Call, with Lesley Manville and a black panther in a waiting area of an old public building

The Visit

Jeremy Herrin (This House) directs Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread, Long Day’s Journey into Night) and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix) as former lovers in Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s visionary revenge play, transported into mid-20th-century America by Tony Kushner (Angels in America).

In the town of Slurry, New York, post-war recession has bitten.

Claire Zachanassian, improbably beautiful and impenetrably terrifying, returns to her hometown as the world’s richest woman.

The locals hope her arrival signals a change in their fortunes, but they soon realise that prosperity will only come at a terrible price.

In association with David Binder

The New American Work Programme is supported by The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Lawton W Fitt & James I McLaren Foundation and Kathleen J Yoh

 

Talks and events
American Culture in the 1950s Fri 6 March, 5.30pm, £9/£6
Making the Show: The Visit Thu 19 Mar, 10.30am – 4pm, £60/£40/£15
Actor Lesley Manville on The Visit Fri 20 March, 3pm, £9/£6
An Introduction to Epic Theatre Mon 23 March, 5.30pm, £9/£6

Cast

Production team

National Theatre Season: October 2019 to March 2020

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NT rep leaflet Oct 19 to Mar 20 cover detail of teh letter a cut out in plywood

The Visit ticket prices and Access performances

Ticket prices

Monday - Thursday eves, all matinees
*£86, £66, £57, £46, £32, £15
Friday & Saturday eves
*£89, £69, £60, £52, £35, £18
Ways to save
Previews 31 January - 7 February
*£69, £49 - £15

Access performances

Audio-described performances, for blind and visually impaired people:
Fri 13 March, 7pm
Sat 14 March, 1pm preceded by a Touch Tour at 11.30am

Captioned performances, for deaf or hard-of-hearing people:
Wed 4 March, 7pm
Wed 11 March, 1pm
Sat 28 March, 1pm
Mon 30 March, 7pm

 

*Some of the best seats in the house are premium priced. They help to ensure we can continue to offer low price seats for all our productions; the National Theatre is a charity and only 17% government-funded. This year nearly 30% of our tickets are available for £20 or less.

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Photography (Lesley Manville) by David Stewart

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