Madam, - I refer to recent letters from A.R. West (October 11th) and Anne Lardner (October 13th). Both are censorious in tone. But, as they say, chacun a son gout.
I was not preoccupied with the details to the same extent as these correspondents but was hugely impressed by the show's panoramic range in portraying the many risible aspects of our current society.
Some, evidently, did not relish this approach nor the forms of expression employed by the author towards that end, but when an author "holds the mirror up to nature" he or she inevitably treads on some toes.
The show is criticised for the inadequate amount of dance and it is argued that the author should stick to his forte, i.e. choreography. There are two points here. In that dance is an extremely difficult medium through which to convey social comment, this would be a constraining factor in this context. Secondly each of the dance elements in the show was so good as to be a veritable multum in parvo in itself and the exhilarating grand finale should suffice to satisfy the wishes of even the most ardent adherents of that medium. - Yours, etc,
J DOLAN, Clontarf, Dublin 3.