The Visit

Claire Zachanassian is a millionairesse when she returns to the town where she was seduced and abandoned as a girl - a town now crumbling and impoverished.  One by one she buys the allegiance of the townsfolk and bribes every official so that they, in return, will come together and kill the man who abused her.  The Visit is a savage psychological drama about how ordinary people are driven to acts of brutality.  Written in post-war Europe, it is clearly allegorical.