Trifles

Trifles by Susan Glaspell as a minimal production can be a possibility, but the set with all the props and the world to support the text would satisfy the production. Going back to the minimal production, this can be a beneficial setting in certain aspects. One aspect is if you make the important props contrast enough with the bare background there can be a good emphasis on the props which are one of the important visual properties. Another aspect that can make the stripped down version of the play work is the text. The text explains enough of what is taking place in the world to give us a sort of clear visual setting of the production and with the actors supporting the actions and emotions well enough can possibly work as far as text. Another that can enhance the world the minimal set is sound even though there is a bare set we can get the visual juices going with sound. The blank/abstract idea for Trifles can be one way of approaching this play. 
The thing that this minimal set would be missing would be the full visual environment. It was lose the messy, incomplete, and earthy farmhouse world. It would also lose the rich earthy colors in a farmhouse. On the other hand the production would gain a challenge of getting the full world across through a bare set. But, after examining the possible ways that the minimal world could work, I wouldn't mind see this approach on stage. It would be  a challenge but maybe a successful challenge. The naturalist production would be fun and challenging as well with the choices you can make but there are more complicated choices in the theatrical production because there is not much to work with. In my opinion it can go either way.