re: Tony Kushner's adaptation of Dürrenmatt's "The Visit"
Posted by: sf 09:25 pm EST 12/30/24
In reply to: Tony Kushner's adaptation of Dürrenmatt's "The Visit" - kieran 11:56 pm EST 12/29/24

I think it closed (because of the pandemic) before it was due to be filmed for NT Live. They recorded it for the archive, but those tapings usually aren't made available offsite.

You're not missing much. Lesley Manville and Hugo Weaving were great, but Tony Kushner's adaptation was self-important, self-indulgent, VERY slow-paced, and far too long. The show ran about three hours and forty minutes (including two intervals), and felt longer; it really needed to lose (at least) an hour. The reviews were not good, and did not deserve to be, the two central performances and the set design aside. It was a huge disappointment.
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