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The Visit (Theatre)
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The Visit (original title: Der Besuch der alten Dame, "The Visit Of The Old Lady") is a tragicomedy play by the Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Even though it has a simple (minimalist) structure, it's a complex psychological work with several twists, encompassing 3 acts.The play takes place in the 1950's. The extremely impoverished town of Gullen prepares to welcome home Claire Zachanassian, quite possibly the richest woman in the world, who was born in the sleepy Gullen but moved abroad years before. They intend to woo her with fond memories (since the place wasn't such a sty back then) and have her ex-boyfriend, Alfred Ill, try to woo her into giving them $100,000. She offers one billion, half to the town itself and half to be given out between the people... if the villagers can set aside their morals for her.Due to the many twists in this play, some spoilers may end up unmarked. As many relating to the major twists (from the end of act 1 and the start of act 3) will be hidden as possible.There's also The Musical version, which was first performed in Vienna in 2014.The play, together with The Pirate Jenny, additionally inspired Dogville. It has nothing to do with the M. Night Shyamalan film of the same name. Nor to the video game. | |
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Those Two Guys | |
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Those Two Guys: The eunuchs. In German they are even called Die Beiden, which means those two guys. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: Claire's deal is close enough. Sure, you can have your money... if someone kills Ill. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Claire insists she can buy justice. | |
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Red Right Hand | |
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Red Right Hand: Claire has a prosthetic hand and foot to hint at her tragic past. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins. It was inevitable by the end. Even because, well, everyone's a bad guy... | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: Claire knew the town needed her money because she set it up that way herself. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Far on the cynical end. | |
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Humans Are Bastards | |
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Humans Are Bastards: Every plot point relies on it. | |
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Woman Scorned | |
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Woman Scorned: Dürrenmatt took cues from Medea for Claire. | |
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Screw the Money, I Have Rules! | |
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Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: The townspeople's stance, which starts to break down and eventually stops. | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation: One Dutch production team realized that the Netherlands doesn't have any mountain towns (due to there being no mountains in the whole country). The location was changed to a northern fishermen's island, with the train replaced by a boat and everyone doing northern accents. It worked beautifully. | |
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Southern Gothic Satan | |
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Southern Gothic Satan: The play has a naturalistic feminine version, in which a billionairess returns to the little town where she grew up... to offer the population a huge sum of money to kill the citizen who seduced, impregnated and dumped her when she was a teenager. | |
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The Cuckoolander Was Right | |
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The Cuckoolander Was Right: But they say some disturbing things in the play that make perfect sense once you know everything... | |
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Serial Spouse | |
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Serial Spouse: Claire. She arrives to Gullen with her seventh husband, divorces him and marries a film star, then divorces him too, and prepares to marry a Nobel Prize-winner. | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass: Played with. The townsfolk gradually become more obvious about being willing to do anything for the money that they need and we start to learn more and more about Ill's terrible actions in the past, and the help that the eunuchs gave him to cover it up before they became blind eunuchs as a result. | |
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Fair-Weather Ex | |
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Fair-Weather Ex: The people of Guellen deploy Alfred to woo Claire, his old ex-girlfriend, as part of their ploy to ply her for money. Alfred has conveniently forgotten that she left in disgrace after he got her pregnant and disavowed her in court. She has not, but she plays along for a bit before beginning her revenge. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Koby and Loby. They were not only blinded and castrated, but had their very identities removed. The reason for this? They agreed to lie to the judge about sleeping with Claire so that Ill could avoid taking responsibility for impregnating her. This caused her to become an outcast, lose her child and resort to prostitution to survive. And they did this for a bottle of liquor. Also, Ill. He made Claire into an outcast. Also, the people in the village, who also made her an outcast. Really, aside from Claire, what happens in this play couldn't have happened to nicer people. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
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Rule of Symbolism: Claire's pet panther, the yellow shoes, Claire's prosthetic parts, the hotel's name... | |
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Revenge | |
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Revenge: One of the major themes of the play. Claire wants revenge on Ill because he refused to acknowledge that he impregnated her, which led to Claire being unable to keep her child and having to resort to prostitution to survive. | |
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Money, Dear Boy | |
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Money, Dear Boy: invoked Another major plot point. Gullen needs money...but what are they willing to do for it? It's also implied Ill married Matilda because her family owned the general store. They don't seem to care too much for each other, outside of the portrait plot point. | |
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The Needs of the Many | |
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The Needs of the Many: Used as justification later about taking Claire's deal. To the point where the Mayor tells Ill to just kill himself so no citizen has to murder him. | |
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Living Prop | |
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Living Prop: Literally, the trees in the forest are actually actors with their arms held out (going by the stage directions). | |
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Fiery Redhead | |
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Fiery Redhead: Claire in her youth. | |
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UnluckyChildhoodFriend | |
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Unlucky Childhood Friend: Everyone sees Ill as this to the fabulously rich Claire, though they point out that if she'd married him she'd be as poor as the rest. Except she wouldn't, since it was Ill refusing to take responsibility for impregnating her that set her on the road to her vast wealth...which she used to ruin Gullen. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Cloud Cuckoolander: The eunuchs Koby and Loby. A tragic variant, because it is implied they were made that way by torture. We know Claire had them blinded and castrated, at the very least... | |
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The Chessmaster | |
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The Chessmaster: Claire. When asked to invest in the town's mill and mine, both of which could be extremely profitable if someone just used a little cash to open, she then reveals that she bought them already. She's the one who closed them in the first place. | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Most of the townsfolk go unnamed and are only known by their professions. Matilda, even though she is named, is called Mrs. Ill by the script. | |
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Rhymes on a Dime | |
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Rhymes on a Dime: All the names of the people who work for Claire. The butler is Boby, her bodyguards are former Manhattan gangsters Roby and Toby, and her eunuchs are Koby and Loby. Likewise, her three husbands she goes through in the play are named Moby, Hoby, and Zoby. This is all on purpose. Claire admits she renames her husbands to match the butler, since the butler will outlast them. It's implied she did the same with the others, since we also get Koby and Loby's real names in the story. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: The press thought Ill was screaming "Oh God!" in joy. Then again, Claire pointed out before that she can make the press do what she wants. | |
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