08/09/2025
Let's start the week with a Hummy Press recommended read!
'The Visit' by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt is a tragic comedy stage play about poverty, wealth, revenge and desperation. Hummy Press's resident writer, David, first read this script whilst at school in the 90s when he was cast in the play as the central role of Alfred Ill. Performing in 'The Visit' holds fond memories for David, but long after the curtain closed this story stayed in David's head as a funny, bizarre and thought-provoking piece of writing, as alarmingly relevant today as it was when it was written in the 1950s.
'The Visit' by Friedrich Dürrenmatt - 'Claire Zachanassian, an eccentric and enormously wealthy older woman, returns to her former hometown with a horrific proposition: she wants the townspeople to kill her former lover, Aldred Ill: the town's most popular shop keeper, who got her pregnant and then jilted her. In exchange, she will provide enough money to revitalize the decrepit town and it's impoverished people. In the battle between morality and money, what is the cost of one man's life?'