Trueman and the Arsonists review " timely revival of 50s dystopia
Roundhouse, LondonSimon Stephens' adaptation of Max Frisch play about bourgeois indifference to a rising crisis should ring loud bells, but its absurdism fails to resonate There is a great timeliness to this revival of Max Frisch's 1953 dark comedy, Biedermann and the Arsonists, about a dystopia in which firestarters are running amok. A city is ablaze and its authorities are on the chase for whoever is lighting the f…