Peters' only interest in the place stems from its location near a shoe store that carries the extra narrow size he requires.
Joining them are Larry, the shoe store proprietor who is searching for his missing wife Cathy Mae, two New Age emissaries – a young pregnant girl named Rose (who might be Peters' long-lost daughter) and her musician-composer friend Leonard, and Charlotte.
"[1] Miller, in a preface to the play, wrote that the set "should look like whatever the reader or producer imagines as a space where the living and dead may meet.
"[2] Miller wrote the play specifically for the Off-Broadway Signature Theater Company, as playwright in residence, [1] which staged it as the final offering of their 1997-98 season.
"[3] The play was produced at the Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota, opening in November 1999 and directed by James Houghton.