One important “player” in this project is also its addressee: the audience, the spectators, who often for decades have sat at every premiere and every world premiere in the same seats in the Pfauen next to their old “neighbours”, founding a community, to which every new piece must prove itself. Former assistant director Richard Merz deciphers the shorthand notes in his director’s notebook, Bibi Gessner, then the director’s secretary, recalls how she typed the pages of the manuscript that Dürrenmatt used to correct every day, stage hand Hans Städeli once again organises the rebuilding of the open stage scenes, and three members of the now grown-up children’s choir sing the welcome song for Zachanassian. With eight experts – former staff and audience members of the Pfauen – they search the collective memory and reconstruct the outlines of Oskar Wälterlin’s production with the unforgettable Therese Giehse as Claire Zachanassian from the margins. In “World Premiere: The Visit” Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel deal with part of the history of the Schauspielhaus Zürich: the world premiere of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s “The Visit” on 29th of January 1956.
Reconstruction of the premiere in 1956 and of the events surrounding it, before and after, in the same place, with those who were involved back then, 11 children, 46 life-size black and white photos, and a musician. World Premiere: The Visit By Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel
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