September 3 - September 20, 2026

In The Arsonists, acclaimed Swiss playwright Max Frisch presents a darkly comic fable about complicity and denial in the face of encroaching disaster. As strange men insinuate themselves into the home of a respectable businessman, fires begin to break out all across the city. Everyone sees it coming—but no one does anything to stop it. Not even the Greek chorus!

Written in the aftermath of WWII and echoing eerily into our present, Frisch’s “morality play without a moral” is an absurdly funny and quietly chilling modern parable.

a play by Max FRISCH
directed by Luke HARLAN

presented by THE FIREBUGS
translation by Alastair Beaton