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〓一笑而过〓
楼主

Benedict Cumberbatch as Eisenring (Photo: Credit Pau Ros)地点:the Royal Court
时间:2007年11月
以下文字转自CURTAINUP.COM
In an elegant new translation by Alistair Beaton, Max Frisch's comic parable The Arsonists, (sometimes known as the Firebugs or Fire Raisers), is playing in rep with Ionesco's Rhinoceros at the Royal Court. Both plays share a certain political, if unspecific, allegorical force, treated with an edge of absurdism and comedy.
Frisch's play is based in a town which has suffered from a series of attacks from Arsonists. Gottlieb Biedermann (Will Keen) is a typical member of the bourgeoisie, with a respectable house, moneyed job and obedient wife. His only weaknesses are intangible ones: conformity of attitudes and vulnerability to manipulation within his limited sphere of experience. When his own house is infiltrated by a couple of homeless men seeking shelter, he exercises his humanistic, sentimental idealism in spite of some simmering suspicion that these men are arsonists. He calculates that a dinner invite will befriend them and defuse any threat or feeling of difference between them ("Rich or poor, we're all human beings — even the middle classes.") Whilst Biedermann is unable to expel, thwart or even fathom his visitors, they wheedle, persuade and exploit him with catastrophic results.
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