Photo: Miles Pawski

Garth Petal and Jamella Cross in Virago Theatre Company's "The Edge of the World."

Garth Petal and Jamella Cross in Virago Theatre Company's "The Edge...

“So, are you folks lookers or runners?” Lido (Garth Petal) asks some newcomers early in Miles Pawski’s “The Edge of the World.” He’s referring to why they alighted on a rather unappealing Oregon campground: as vacationers, or as fugitives at a waypoint? Everyone’s running from something in Virago Theatre Company’s production; the scariest part, though, isn’t the pursuers but how easy it is to create a lawless, impoverished no-man’s land in the richest country in the world.

— Lily Janiak