The story takes place in many locals: a forest, a desert, atop the city walls, the royal chambers, by a watering hole, a riverbank, a skiff, the land of the dead, dreams. Of course, to represent each of these places literally would be disastrous as it would slow the play down and make it more about scene changes than anything else. Keeping in mind that we want to celebrate the theatrically imaginative playfulness of the script, we should find a way to instantaneously enable the story to go wherever it needs to go.
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