Friedrich Dürrenmatt

The Visit

Director: Péter Rudolf

tragic comedy

Based on the translation of Imre Kurdi the adaptation for Vígszínház Budapest was made by: Hilda Hársing and Péter Rudolf

It’s still a mystery, why this small town with great assets in the middle of Europe went bankrupt. The factories closed one after the other, the popular holiday resort is empty, already the bells of the cathedral had been embargoed by the enforcers. The streets are dirty and abandoned, the citizens vegetate from unemployment benefit for years, while the country and whole Europe is blooming. At this moment Claire Zachanassian, the billionaire woman who is well known for her charity work, announces, that after forty years she is going to visit her hometown. It is very highly hoped, that she is going to save the town, and Claire is willing to do so, she only has one condition… 

 

Claire Za­cha­nas­si­an Hegyi Bar­ba­ra

Alf­red III He­ge­dűs D. Géza

Ish­ler Ma­tild, his wife Ba­lá­zso­vits Edit

Otí­lia, his daughter An­tó­ci Do­rottya

Kon­rád, his son Ertl Zsom­bor

Lord mayor Kő­sze­gi Ákos

Parson Se­ress Zol­tán

Dr. Loden, doctor Gados Béla

Schoolteacher Feszt­ba­um Béla

Schim­le­der, policeman Ka­rá­cso­nyi Zol­tán

Jäger Al­bert, first citizen Bor­bicz­ki Fe­renc

Sch­midt, second citizen Te­le­kes Péter

Schus­ter, third citizen Csapó At­ti­la / Gyön­gyö­si Zol­tán

Krach, fourth citizen Re­i­der Péter

Mi­e­der, painter Szán­tó Ba­lázs

7^th, 8^th, 9^th husband Orbán Le­ven­te

Boby, servant Méhes Lász­ló

Koby / First journalist/ Re­por­ter Dino Ben­ja­min

Loby / Second journalist Tóth And­rás

Sprőd Anett, wife of the mayor Tar Re­ná­ta

Second Lady Gi­li­cze Márta

Stationmaster Dengyel Iván

Train-guard Kóbor Ba­lázs / Kiss Ger­gely Máté

Reporter Kopek Janka

Cameraman Virág Péter

Reporter Ko­vács Oli­vér

also appearing: Ada­movich Fe­renc, Asz­ta­los Dóra, Bá­lint Barna, Fehér Laura, For­gács Ró­bert, Furka Il­di­kó, Gu­lyás Lász­ló, Hajdu Ádám, Kóbor Ba­lázs, Misik Re­ná­ta, Mol­nár Zsolt, Ná­ná­si At­ti­la, Rizek Lajos, Sik­ló­di Szil­via, Szabó Má­tyás Péter, Sza­kács Ri­chárd, Tóth Bri­git­ta, Tóth Máté, Viola Péter, Zámbó György 

musicians: Ba­lázs Tamás, Bar­tek Zsolt, Berec Péter, Bodon Bence, Hlaszny Ádám, Ke­resz­tes Sán­dor, Kiss Vil­mos Tibor, Ku­rucz Le­ven­te, Mi­hály­fi Márk, Rónai Gábor, Stand­o­vár Má­tyás, Tompa Ábel

Prompter: GÁL TÜNDE
Stage manager: MUCSI ZOL­TÁN, KUTI LÁSZ­LÓ
Assistant of Director: SZLÁ­DEK KATA
Stage presence assistant: VI­TÁ­RI­US OR­SO­LYA

Set designer: BA­GOSSY LE­VEN­TE
Costume designer: FÜZÉR ANNI
Stage presence: MÉHES LÁSZ­LÓ
Music: MES­TER DÁVID
Dra­ma­turg: HÁRS­ING HILDA
Lightning: CSON­TOS BA­LÁZS

Director: RU­DOLF PÉTER