VISIT FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN
A UK premiere
By Christopher Hampton
Based on the short story by Stefan Zweig
Direction. Chelsea Walker / Design. Rosanna Vize / Lighting Design. Bethany Gupwell / Sound. Peter Rice / Composition - Max Perryment / Movement. Michela Meazza / Intimacy. Lucy Fennell / Casting. Arthur Carrington / Production Manager. Pam Nichol / Deputy Production Manager. Josh Collins/ Assistant Director - Alex Kampfner / Assistant Designer. Emeline Beroud / Deputy Stage Manager. Ray Young / Company Stage Manager. Jerry Gunn/ Assistant Stage Manager. Roma Radford
Cast. Natalie Simpson, James Corrigan, Jessie Gatward, Nigel Hastings
Photo Credit. Marc Brenner
Vienna, 1934. Stefan is one of the world’s most successful authors – widely read, universally admired, and translated into every language. His is the life of a wealthy playboy, enjoying only the finest things in life - from luxurious world travel to the company of his most dazzling contemporaries in Europe’s most fashionable restaurants. Only two things cloud his prospects: the rise of the Nazi Party, and the sudden appearance of a woman who he clearly knows… but who he cannot, for the life of him, remember…
‘Under Chelsea Walker’s direction, a chilling intimacy builds between the couple, with taut pacing reminiscent of the 1948 film’ Arifa Akbar, The Guardian
‘Uncomfortable is good, if handled as deftly and suggestively as in Chelsea Walker’s chamber production’ Claire Armitstead, The Observer
‘Corrigan and Simpson are spellbinding as they play a sort of cat-and-mouse memory game’ Sarah Hemming, Financial Times
‘Stylish and sexually charged’ Dave Fargnoli, The Stage
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