The Visit is a 1956 tragicomic play by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Play performed at the Maribor Slovene National Theatre in 1960
Kyrgyz Drama Theatre performing the play in 2015
Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms. Most often seen in dramatic literature, the term can describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending. Tragicomedy, as its name implies, invokes the intended response of both the tragedy and the comedy in the audience, the former being a genre based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis and the latter being a genre intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter.
Tragic Comic masks of Ancient Greek theatre represented in the Hadrian's Villa mosaic.