From Minnesota Public Radio, featuring director and MIT faculty member Jay Scheib:
Stein’s novel [The Making of Americans] had a much larger subject.
“(It’s) a telling of everyone, at every time, at every place,” says director Jay Scheib.
Scheib says the novel is an extended portrait of multiple generations of a single family.
And from the Minnesota Post:
Surely, the most tantalizing thing about the show is its impressive cast of artists and co-creators: Boston-based experimental director and MIT professor Jay Scheib concocts a media-rich environment in which Stein’s renderings of past, present and future can simultaneously unfold.