Madam, - Belinda McKeon, writing about the forthcoming production of Brian Friel's Translations on Broadway (Arts, January 4th), portrays the American theatre audience as a crowd of numbskulled, pedantic people who want an Agatha Christie-style tie-up to all their theatrical experiences. Not so. In fact I could not disagree more.
Speaking from my own American experiences, playing in Los Angeles, the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, in Pittsburgh and on Broadway, American audiences are astute, prepared and receptive to the new, the controversial, the confrontational and, above, all, the poetic elements of drama in theatre.
They are ready. Are we? - Yours, etc,
ROSALEEN LINEHAN, Anglesea Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin.