Setting his drama "Riders to the Sea" in the Aran Islands, John Millington Synge refers to the annual Gaelic harvest festival "Samhain," held October 31 through November 1. The festival marks the end of harvesting and the lighter half of the year while ushering
in the beginning of the dark season. Triple Shadow's adaption sets the time of
the play during Samhain, when the boundaries between the world of the living
and that of the dead become thinner, allowing spirits to pass between the worlds.
Cathleen leaves a window open to the west with a light burning to guide the
departed home and sets places at the table for her six brothers, father, and
grandfather, all lost at sea.

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