d Almost, Maine. A field of stars - a clear, cold, moonless northern night sky - serves as the backdrop for the entire play. Lights up on Pete and Ginette sitting on a bench in Pete's yard, look ng at the stars. …

A fictional town in northern Maine called “Almost” experiences a magical night under the northern lights. Throughout a series of vignettes, the citizens of Almost, Maine are given unlikely second-chances at …

It is a cold Friday night in the middle of winter in a small, mythical town in northern Maine called Almost, Maine. A field of stars – a clear, cold, moonless northern night sky – serves as the backdrop for the …

The lights fade up on Glory standing in the front yard of an old farmhouse in Almost, Maine. She is clutching a small brown paper grocery bag to her chest. She is looking up at the sky. A porch light …

Almost is very far inland (two hundred miles from the ocean) and very far north (four hundred miles north of Boston, Massachusetts).

Lights fade up on Jimmy sitting alone at a table in a back corner of Almost, Maine’s local hang-out, the Moose Paddy. He is nursing a couple of Buds. Sandrine enters. She is coming from the ladies’ room …

32 ALMOST HUMAN but not very intelligent; affectionate especially among themselves and in their family relations, and occasionally showing attachment to persons who befriend them.