Madam, - It seems to me that Anne Lardner (October 13th) and D.R. West (October 12th) have missed the point of Fintan O'Toole's critique of The Story of the Bull (Arts, October 7th).
Mr O'Toole acknowledges the obscenity, violence and nudity in the show, but rightly celebrates Michael Keegan-Dolan's use of these mercilessly to poke fun at contemporary Irish society. In other hands, such devices might have been gratuitous, but in Keegan-Dolan's they were of the essence in this powerful work. The thoroughly deserved standing ovation on the night I attended indicates to me that the horror and disgust expressed by Ms Lardner and Mr West were not shared by the vast majority of people who saw the show.
If I may quote St Teresa of Avila, "from sour-faced saints, may the Lord deliver us". - Yours etc,
LOUISE DONLON, Rosenallis, Co Laois.