Press & Updates

The National Theatre has announced it’s spring season and it includes The Visit or the old lady comes to call starring Lesley Manville and Hugo Weaving as former lovers in Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s visionary revenge play, transported into mid-20th-century 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.

Public bookings open on Friday 11 October – official NT site