When Does "Stranger Things: The First Shadow" (2023) Take Place?
"Stranger Things: The First Shadow" is a horror stageplay written by Kate Trefry with Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, and Jack Thorne first performed December 14th, 2023. So when is "The First Shadow" set?
It takes place in the year:
We know this because Henry Creel tells Patty Newby her birth mother works at the real-world Stardust Resort and Casino which opened on July 2nd, 1958 AD and closed on November 1st, 2006, so it must be during or after July of 1958 AD but before or during October of 2006 AD.
1959? AD
We know this because Henry Creel tells Patty Newby her birth mother works at the real-world Stardust Resort and Casino which opened on July 2nd, 1958 AD and closed on November 1st, 2006, so it must be during or after July of 1958 AD but before or during October of 2006 AD.
More specifically, .
Additionally, there is a prologue that depicts of the real-world (alleged) Philadelphia Experiment, a tantalizingly mysterious experiment in cloaking and/or teleportation that is claimed to have taken place on the real-world battleship U.S.S. Eldridge around October 28th, 1943 AD during World War II. So it is most likely October of 1943 AD during the prologue.
Then, there are two epilogues:
-The first, .
-The second, .
It is the chronologically earliest stageplay in the Stranger Things universe.
