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Written by Swiss playwright Friedrich Durrenmatt during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the play takes place in a world where “technology and information can end everything in a single moment...

Author: By Nina M. Catalano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Director | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

...nice, creepy situation, derived from a novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt and visualized by the director, Sean Penn. But the screenwriters, Jerzy and Mary Olson-Kromolowski, permit Jerry his ordinariness. He really loves Lori. And he is a marvelous surrogate father to her child. It is possible to imagine his pledge, his obsession, being drowned in domesticity. If only those suspicious cars didn't keep pulling up to his pumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: What Lurks Beneath | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...visit, director Richard Eoin Nash's rather loose adaptation of Friedrich Durrenmatt's Der Besuch der Alten Dame, deals with the return of Claire Washer, a not-particularly-prodigal daughter, to her home town of Slurryville after her transformation into Claire Trumpefeller, multibillionaire...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Like That Old Relative Who Won't Go Away: A "Dragging" Visit at the Loeb Mainstage | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

Nash plays around with a variety of themes, and it is impossible to tell which is his true focus, or even if there is one. Durrenmatt's own emphasis, on Germany and German issues, has been effectively excised to make this play a lot more universal...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Like That Old Relative Who Won't Go Away: A "Dragging" Visit at the Loeb Mainstage | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

...Visit of the Old Lady: A Tragicomedy of Love and Rapid Economic Growth--by Friedrich Durrenmatt. Directed by Richard Nash. Loeb Mainstage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

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