It's the Intermission
A Creative Coffee Break

The production is of great importance, has given the play the only life it will know, but it is gone in the end and the pages are the only wall against which to throw the future or measure the past.

How the pages got there, in their form, in their order, is more of a mystery than reason would hope for.

An Evening with Lillian Hellman, Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 27, No. 7, April 1974, p.11