The Firebugs

February 18, 2005 - March 6, 2005

Senseless acts of violence threaten to spread fire and fear like a burning cancer. The populace, meanwhile, sit idly by, clinging to moral platitudes as their world crumbles around them. No, it's not the War on Terror, it's The Firebugs, Max Frisch's deeply disturbing yet wickedly funny play presented by nimbus.

The Firebugs is a dark comedy about self-deception and moral flaccidity in the face of impending disaster. When, the play asks, do victims become accomplices to their own demise? In a town wracked by a string of arson attacks, the bourgeois socialites Christian and Babette Betterman allow two shady vagabonds to move into their attic. As it becomes increasingly obvious their guests are really firebugs, the spineless protagonists exhibit a political cluelessness and comic human despair that is strikingly relevant to our times.

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Dramatis Personae

Director	Josh Cragun
Assistant Director/Stage Manager	Kate Hanson
Assisant Stage Manager	Cockroach
Lighting Designer	Erik Hanson
Scenic Designer	Liz Neerland
Sound Design	Dustin Hansen
Christian Betterman	Robert C. Hammel
Babbette	Pam Kaufman
Anne	Deanne McDonald
Joe Smite	Jeremy S. Wendt
Willy Ironbar	Brian O'Neal
Chorus Leader	Derek Dirlam
Light and Sound BO	Liz Neerland
Set crew	Kate Hanson
Set crew	Dustin Hansen
Set crew	John Neerland