Jeremy Herrin (This House) directs Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread, Long Day's Journey into Night) and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings) as former lovers in Friedrich D�rrenmatt's visionary revenge play, transported into mid-20th-century America by Tony Kushner (Angels in America).
In the town of Slurry, New York, post-war recession has bitten.
Claire Zachanassian, improbably beautiful and impenetrably terrifying, returns to her hometown as the world's richest woman.
The locals hope her arrival signals a change in their fortunes, but they soon realise that prosperity will only come at a terrible price.