April 5-12, 2024
By Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Translated by Maurice Valency
Directed by Craig Miller

Drayton Hall Theatre

Profound questions of class, greed, and ethics infuse Dürrenmatt’s 1956 classic. When the world’s wealthiest woman, Claire Zachannassian, makes a long-awaited return to her impoverished hometown, she arrives with a vindictive agenda and a devil’s bargain – she’ll gift the town an extravagant fortune in exchange for the life of the man who abandoned her decades before.  What follows is a test of the town’s moral fortitude and an unsparing, darkly comic look at the easy corruptibility of justice. “A strong and powerful tragicomedy and an indictment of the corrupting influence of money…" – The Week.