To be true to a work is to betray it to a lie. A play demands the obsession of another perspective. Even someone who only reads a play also helps to write it between the lines. Theater is based upon a dialogue between the playwright and director, but this dialogue is wasted if the playwright sees himself as the director and the director sees himself as the playwright. It is the tension that holds them together from which something new emerges. No one is the sole authority regarding the truth of a play, not even the playwright himself, since they have been surprised by the unfamiliar that has been formulated in them. Plays are written in mirrored language; they are not readable without a mirror. The playwright is true to his work when he lets it be and has faith in it.

(Albert Ostermaier, playwright)