“Mary Page Marlowe” by Tracy Letts (post 2): Presented by Steppenwolf Theatre Company, named for Hesse’s “Steppenwolf,” about multiple personality

I am reading Letts’s play, in which the title character is played by six actresses at different ages. Since another character, Roberta Marlowe, appears in the play at ages nineteen and thirty-two, but is played by only one actress, it is clear that the six actresses playing Mary Page Marlowe are meant to dramatize different personalities, not just different ages.

Mary Page Marlowe was first presented by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago in 2016. The theater company, founded in 1974, was named after the 1927 novel by Hermann Hesse.

However, when I google brief video interviews of the author and others associated with this play, none mentions the Hesse novel or its thesis, that many people have unrecognized multiple personality.

Search “Hesse” and “Steppenwolf.”