Set in 1837 New Orleans during the Great Panic, Failure to Furnish is a trail of questions launched initially by a found object ---a barren silver charm bracelet The title exposes a modern administrative cruelty, taken from code 042 Failure to Furnish—the Pennsylvania designation used to cut Medicaid, a bureaucratic mechanism as a former Philly caseworker, Foley calls the "kill-code." From these twin sparks of physical and systemic restriction, the play ballooned into a bleak Southern Gothic drama set in a New Orleans mansion during the Great Economic cotton crash of April 1837
