Fall Main Stage 2017: THE ARSONISTS by Max Frisch
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LEWIS & CLARK THEATRE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS
Fall 2017 Main Stage Play
THE ARSONISTS
by Max Frisch
Directed by Professor Stepan Simek
SYNOPSIS OF THE PLAY
Mr. Gottlieb Biedermann is your average middle-class guy. A successful, albeit a bit ruthless businessman, he leads an orderly, perfectly unremarkable, one may even say decent family life in an unremarkable town somewhere in the world. He’s a normal, perhaps a bit boring guy and if you met him, and then bumped into him a few weeks later, you’d probably not remember him at all. Just another normal, pretty OK, run-of-the-mill guy, just like most people are, living a righteous life in an orderly community, just like most people do. Except for one thing: Houses are being burned down in his town, and some unseen arsonists are setting the world on fire - literally. Mr. Biedermann resolutely condemns the arsonists, and pledges - in the name of human decency - to help put an end to the destruction, even as he is certain that nothing bad would ever happen to him – he is a good and decent man after all. Moreover, being a decent man, Biedermann willingly gives shelter to two down-on-their-luck drifters. When the two visitors start filling his attic with explosive gas canisters and start unwinding a detonating cord, Mr. Biederman, the decent, normal, and unremarkable “Everyman” that he is, is more than willing to assist them.
Here’s a link to our Dramaturgical Guide
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Ubxrovlpa-vLo0CKQWn94QTJLd76DZfghX6ULOSGoYQ
PERFORMANCES
Fir Acres Theatre Main Stage
Friday and Saturday, November 3 and 4 – 7:30pm
Sunday, November 5 - 2:00pm Matinee
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, November 9,10, and 11 – 7:30pm
BUY TICKETS ONLINE HERE
beginning September 11, 2017
BOX OFFICE (Fir Acres Theatre):
Tickets can also be purchased (cash only) at our box office, Monday through Friday, 1:00-5:00pm, and one hour before performances beginning October 24. Phone reservations for non-campus ticket purchasers only (503-768- 7495).
$15 General Admission
$10 L&C Faculty/Staff/Alums, Sr. Citizens, Non L&C Students
$5 L&C Students
$8 Groups of 10 or more
QUESTIONS
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