The Arsonists
October 16, 2026
7 pm
by Max Frisch
Directed by Brian Gill
Gordon Biedermann has it all. A beautiful home, a thriving hair tonic business, a loving wife, and two arsonists holed up in his attic with several barrels of gasoline.
Max Frisch’s The Arsonists – described by its author as ‘a morality play without a moral’– is an incisive, bleakly funny commentary on the fatal impulse to acquiesce in the face of evil. Written in the aftermath of the 1948 coup in Czechoslovakia, the play is an enduring allegory about the accommodation of insidious social and political forces whose ascendance promises destruction for their enablers.
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