Madam, - As an avid theatre-goer and also a musician, I was particularly interested in Fintan O'Toole's review of Brian Friel's play Conversations at the Gate Theatre.
An excellent review; but what your reviewer failed to mention was that the play lasts for a bare 65 minutes and to my mind does not constitute an evening of theatre, merely a curtain-raiser. - Yours, etc.,
H.J. BECKETT, Green Road, Blackrock, Co Dublin.