Last Operas and PlaysWhen I see a thing it is not a play for me, but when I write something that somebody else can see then it is a play for me. Gertrude Stein In the more than seventy five plats Gertrude Stein wrote between 1913 and 1946, she envisioned a new dramaturgy, beginning with her pictorial conception of a play as a landscape. She drew into her plays the daily flow of life around her including the natural world and turned cities, villages, parts of the dramatic