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Arsonists, The

"This is not a 'wordy' play, but each bit of dialogue is pure gold."

Davis Enterprise

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 75 minutes

  • Time Period: 1990s
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Exterior Set
  • Cautions: Open Flame

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Shoestring Budget, Professional Theatre
The Arsonists is a lyrical Southern Gothic tale inspired by Electra about a father-daughter arson team who escapes to the Florida Everglades. It's a provocative journey from grief to redemption that delves into the primal bond between parent and child, and explores if that bond can every truly be broken.
REVIEWS:

"Haunting, and atmospheric, Jacqueline Goldfinger's compelling new play, The Arsonists [...] is not your usual family piece [...] nor is it anything like a conventional ghost story."

 The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Jacqueline Goldfinger's spellbinding new play [...] The Arsonists, put me in mind of a kind of gender-reversed Sam Shepard [...] There is a sense here that the playwright honors a history of theater (the Greeks, Shepard, also Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra), but it's almost contemporary. Best of all, Goldfinger's voice is distinctly, wonderfully her own."

 Philadelphia Magazine

"Haunting and primal [...] The Arsonists is an impactful, spine-chilling meditation on the age-old themes of life and death, the power that nature holds over humanity, and the ties that bind father to daughter."

 DC Metro Arts

"The Arsonists packs a strong punch [...] the play is edgy and though-provoking [...] This is not a play for the faint of heart."

 Broadway World

"This is not a 'wordy' play, but each bit of dialogue is pure gold."

 Davis Enterprise

Premiere Production: The Arsonists received an NNPN Rolling World Premiere that began at the Azuka Theatre in Philadelphia, PA in September 2017 under the direction of Allison Heishman. The show eventually moved on to the Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Perseverance Theatre, and Captial Stage.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Multicultural casting

  • M - 20s, female, any race, plays guitar, sings a little
    H - 50s, male, any race, plays guitar, sings a little

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    The Arsonists is a lyrical Southern Gothic tale inspired by Electra about a father-daughter arson team who escapes to the Florida Everglades. It's a provocative journey from grief to redemption that delves into the primal bond between parent and child, and explores if that bond can every truly be broken.

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