Madam, - Deirdre Falvey is quite right to harp on about the Abbey (ArtScape, August 14th). It really is a shambles.
I had hoped that the issue of a glossy brochure for centenary year would mark the end of the no-information era - except that there are no dates for the final third of the year.
So on Saturday I went to the box office to ask for dates for Observe the Sons of Ulster. All they could give were three dates for the Theatre Festival and nothing thereafter.
Go to the Gate or the National Concert Hall and there are always leaflets available. At the Abbey there's nothing. When you book at the Gate or the NCH, they ask for your address and a steady flow of information arrives thereafter. From the Abbey there's nothing.
It's not so much a new theatre that's required - merely new management. - Yours, etc.,
JOHN NORBURY,
Monread,
Naas,
Co Kildare.