While the script describes the setting as simply a "rural place," British and European productions apparently have set the play in medieval times. It is definitely pre-industrial as the farmers still need to have their grains ground at a mill and no one has yet seen a pen. Director Paul Takacs, who has staged the equally challenging Dark Vanilla Jungle by Philip Ridley in New York, has reset the play on the American …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:51PM on November 1, 2017