Act I The Dining-Room of the Manager’s House
Act II, Scene I. The Kitchen of the Roberts’s Cottage Near the Works. Scene II. A Space Outside the Works
Act III. The Drawing-Room of the Manager’s House
The action takes place on February 7th between the hours of noon and six in the afternoon, close to the Trenartha Tin Plate Works, on the borders of England and Wales, where a strike has been in progress throughout the winter.