In the Aurora Theatre's promo video about The Arsonists , by Max Frisch, director Mark Jackson explains the choice to set the play not in Frisch's postwar Germany but in a world seemingly outside of time and place: "What I like so much about Alistair Beaton's translation is he doesn't tie it to any particular time, place, or ideology. It's very much about any society that is choosing to ignore a problem that is right…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PM on June 11, 2013