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Rare Broadway Show Poster , Signed by Cast of "THE VISIT "
Poster size: 36" tall x 24" wide
Good Vintage Condition
Ready for framing ,minor wrinkles
Comes in a tube 25 x 4
PLAYWRIGHT: FRIEDRICH DUERRENMATT
Cast, Harris Yulin, Jane Alexander .....
1992 review by NYT
"The Visit," Friedrich Durrenmatt's drama about a town that sells its soul for a fortune, still exert a chilling grip nearly 35 years after it shook up genteel Eisenhower-era audiences who had been drawn to it by the star power of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne?
The answers are there to be found in the Roundabout Theater Company's revival at the Criterion Center. As directed by Edwin Sherin without benefit of star power but with lots of intelligence and a fiercely conceived lead performance by Jane Alexander, "The Visit" stands revealed as a small masterpiece of misanthropy, a play whose cynicism is so thickly layered that the greed driving the plot at its surface seems almost the least of its characters' sins. For Durrenmatt, people, not money, are the root of all evil.
Better still, the playwright's sense of theater is as nasty as his view of humanity. "The Visit" is not a soul-searching morality play in the earnest manner of a contemporaneous American work like "The Crucible," but a grotesque fable whose icy laughter and bizarre fantastical sideshows (a pair of blind, guitar-strumming eunuchs, for instance) reflect its Swiss author's proximity to both the Holocaust and the accompanying absurdist revolution in theater. People don't sit around and debate the issues in "The Visit." Like the pet black panther that mysteriously stalks the play's progress, its characters lie in wait, then move in for the kill.