It's the Intermission
A Creative Coffee Break

Sometimes you’re pleased, and the words take on meanings they didn’t have before, larger meanings. But sometimes it is the opposite. There is no rule. I don’t have to tell you that speech on the stage is not the speech of life, not even the written speech….I usually know in the first few days of rehearsal what I have made actors stumble over, and what can or cannot be cured.

Lillian Hellman, The Art of Theatre No. 1, Paris Review, Issue 33, Winter-Spring 1965