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CSF setting this production at the end of World War I, reminds us that WWI was a war whose roots lay, as in the play, in the multiplicity of misunderstandings between the major powers, and, especially over both the restless multitudes among the ethnic groupings under them in Europe, and their competition on the world stage, abroad (Barbara Tuchman’s Guns of August).