Madam, - Following the closure last summer of the Bank of Ireland Arts Centre in Foster Place, the similarly "strategic" decision on the acting course in nearby TCD makes me wonder if both are part of some mad College Green arts development plan. In his letter of January 24th, the Head of the School of Drama, Film and Music explains the inexplicable by saying that "actor training at a more mature age (22 instead of 18) produces more rounded actors". Is this what they call Rockett science? - Yours, etc,
PATRICK O'BYRNE, Shandon Crescent, Phibsborough, Dublin 7.