Theatre· Frankfurt Am Main
Der Besuch der alten Dame
"Der Besuch der alten Dame" (The Visit of the Old Lady) is a tragicomedy by Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt. The story follows Claire Zachanassian, an enormously wealthy woman who returns to her impoverished hometown of Güllen and offers the townspeople a fortune on one condition: they must kill Alfred Ill, a shopkeeper who wronged her in her youth—revealing how money gradually corrupts the