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Dürrenmatt just never ceases to delight me with his literary masterpieces! Short, concise, insightful, reflective, thoughtful with lessons to learn and exquisitely elegant embedded satire!

The plot of this play reflects the tragicomic state of the modern world and carries a humanistic conception of the world, also addressing the sources of evil.
The writer offers a rationalistic analysis of the world, slipping occasionally into irrationalism and generally intertwining the two spheres into an almost inseparable final product. One might even place this play into the category of alethic relativism (factual relativism), emphasising the actual relativity of our own reality or reality in general from a broader perspective/angle.

Dürrenmatt's characters in this play are very vivid: Brilliant scientists on the run from humanity to a madhouse; Humanity trying to rob geniuses of their great discoveries to use it against the world; Scientists with superior knowledge who are prisoners in the hands of actual madmen. Then the madmen who rule over geniuses and the geniuses who deny their exclusivity and their genius! Basically, a world gone mad, minds abandoned to the world and imprisoned in a madhouse!
Truly a very symbolic and meaningful piece requiring quite some logical analysis despite being quickly and easy readable.