Sir, I have been attending serious theatre in Dublin over the past five years, when I come from the States to visit my in law. I left Brian Friel's Translations at the Abbey with a disappointment that has deepened during this time.
In this large capital of a significantly urbanised country, why do the best playwrights explore national identity in exclusively rural terms? Roddy Doyle's characters are not preoccupied with questions of traditional life or language, which offer them little help. Where are their peers on stage?
Yours, etc., Rathbeg, Shankill. Co Dublin.