Manson Family member's voice resonates in new L.A. play
In creating its new play, "For All Time," over the past year, L.A.'s Cornerstone Theater Company applied its usual documentary methods to the sprawling topic of criminal justice. That meant interviewing more than 100 people on all sides of the crime-and-punishment equation, and using their words as the raw material for playwright KJ Sanchez's script. And that's how one of the troika of women who were convicted along with Charles Manson for the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders came to be a voice in the play.
As part of the project, Cornerstone taught its interview techniques to volunteer inmates at the California Institution for Women in Chino. One of them landed an interview with one of the three former Manson followers imprisoned there: Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten.
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Photo: Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten (L-R) return to court in 1971. AP
