Sir, – Brendan Quinn’s plea for more midweek matinees in Dublin is well made, but they are alive and well in London (Letters, May 25th).
I recently saw Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa at the National Theatre on a Wednesday afternoon. The 1,150-capacity auditorium was packed.
If a wistful evocation of Co Donegal in the 1930s can sell out in England, why not here? – Yours, etc,
Dr JOHN DOHERTY,
Matt Williams: Take a deep breath and see how Sam Prendergast copes with big Fiji test
New Irish citizens: ‘I hear the racist and xenophobic slurs on the streets. Everything is blamed on immigrants’
Jack Reynor: ‘We were in two minds between eloping or going the whole hog but we got married in Wicklow with about 220 people’
‘I could have gone to California. At this rate, I probably would have raised about half a billion dollars’
Gaoth Dobhair,
Co Dhún na nGall.
Sir, – Brendan Quinn’s suggestion about the Abbey Theatre needing to put on matinee performances in order to facilitate taxpayers from outside the Pale is eminently sensible and logical, which probably means the Dublin-centric Abbey will ignore it. Like many other comfortably funded and Dublin-based institutions, the Abbey is largely unaware that anyone lives west of Lucan, other than a number of gnarled and rustic characters from the plays it stages. – Yours, etc,
JOHN MULLIGAN,
Boyle,
Co Roscommon.