Jericho is an adaptation of Ferenc Molnár’s 1909 masterpiece Liliom, which was an international sensation and subsequently produced on Broadway in 1921. In 1939, Orson Welles performed the title role and directed a radio adaptation co-starring Helen Hayes and Agnes Moorehead. In 1940, a second American stage revival was produced in New York City, starring Burgess Meredith, Ingrid Bergman and Elia Kazan. Originally set in Budapest, the story centers around a cocky and charismatic carousel barker. Most famously, Molnár’s Liliom served as the inspiration for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel, which moved the narrative out of Budapest and into Maine during the end of the 19th century. Jericho is Michael Weller’s attempt to locate Molnár’s story more accurately in an American time and place – depression era Coney Island – and to confront the notion of love expressed as violence.