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Most of the action takes place in an apartment in the Woodlawn district of the Bronx.

Other locations are Costello’s speeches at St. Patrick’s Day dinners, and the art gallery settings for Ruairi’s meetings with Karelma. Both these can be done without fixed staging.

The apartment is formed out of the first floor of an old brownstone. It’s a man’s place and generally cramped, lacking style, and scruffy. There is a kitchen/diner/reception type arrangement. Stage right and in the back wall are four doors, three to bedrooms, and one to a bathroom. The entrance to the apartment is stage left. A big sash window stage left looks out on to 237^th street. On one of the walls an acoustic guitar hangs as a decoration. An old two seater sofa, an armchair, and coffee table, fill the space. Some sporting trophies – baseball and/or ice hockey, maybe a team photo with a young Michael. One or two posters of rock bands of the sixties and a big bad landscape, redolent of a romanticised Ireland.

Through the different time periods the apartment furniture might change with the fashions of the time, as well as predictable updates of the domestic technology.