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The Visit or The Old Lady Comes to Call Tickets

Lesley Manville delivers a magnetic performance in this stupendous piece of theatre.

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Performance dates

31 January - 13 May 2020

Olivier Theatre

Run time: 3hr 30min (inc. 2 intervals)

Includes interval

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Jeremy Herrin (This House) directs Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread, Long Day’s Journey into Night) and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings) 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, the 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.

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Content

Contains strong language that may be considered offensive as well as smoke, gunshots, haze, and flashing lights.

Access

Audio-described performances on Fri 13 March at 7pm and Sat 14 March at 1pm preceded by a Touch Tour at 11.30am. Captioned performances for the deaf or hard-of-hearing will be held on Wed 4 March at 7pm, Wed 11 March at 1pm, Sat 28 March at 1pm, and Mon 30 March at 7pm.