The United States

This is the play's broad-strokes primary setting. There are several implied levels of meaning to this setting. First, there is a thematically significant evocation of the country's celebration of sports and sports teams, and of powerfully winning athletics. Second, there is a similarly thematically significant evocation of the U.S.'s psychological, economic, and social focus on the celebration and valuing of the individual. Third, and as the author points out in her Preface, there is the implied sense of what the author calls "American exceptionalism" - that the United States is unique, special, and privileged - all aspects of being American that the author suggests the play's characters are struggling with.

“Somewhere in Suburban America” (12)

While the actual location or community in which the action of the play takes place is never identified, the author's comment that it is set "somewhere in suburban America" (12) evokes...