Lawrence Kornfeld: Why Stein

i do believe that my starting and staying w/ stein is all in the saga of my productions of her plays; i like the idea of my relation to stein being one of actions as director and not as a theoretician who is concerned with her contribution to post modernist etceteras. she was a wonderful writer, a beautiful poet, a force in contemporary literature and a powerful voice for women and men. she crept into my life early as something i didn't understand but wanted to create her plays because i didn't like not understanding something.

i then got to understand her because she gave me words that put onstage my inner visions. she liberated me from literalism. she is the mother of us all.