Name: Ethics on the Stage: Fires, Ohio
Start: 2026-02-09T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-09T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Emory University Center for Ethics

Join former Center for Ethics Director, Paul Root Wolpe, as we return for an Ethics on the Stage program at the Center.
About this Event

On Monday, February 9 from 6:30-8:00pm, former Center for Ethics Director, Paul Roote Wolpe, will return for an Ethics on the Stage staged readings and discussions from the Alliance Theater’s upcoming production of Fires, Ohio.

As wildfires rage closer and closer to a small Ohio college town, the mopey grown children and second wife of a sort-of-mediocre professor are threatened by another kind of crisis: a visit from a family friend that threatens to bring all of their tensions to a towering inferno. Now, each of them will be forced to choose: stay and smolder, or leave and burn? Inspired by the classic family drama Uncle Vanya, FIRES, OHIO updates a beloved story for our painfully absurd present, taking a hilarious and heartfelt look at the natural (and personal) disasters that transform our everyday lives.