The United States

The United States, with its long and complicated socio-political history of debate over what constitutes human rights and who has them, is the broad-strokes, overall setting for the play, which considers and comments on the history of the U.S. Constitution, one of the documents that is viewed as foundational to America's origins and identity, The nation's socio-political-economic history of celebrating freedom alongside embodying various forms of discrimination, and how that history is connected to the Constitution, is a key defining component of the play's central thematic and narrative focus.

The Theater

The theater in which the play is performed is an element of its physical setting. Central character Heidi interacts with the room and the audience therein directly, at times interacting with both as though they are representations of a room and audience in her past, and at times interacting with both in the present...