In view of the controversy generated by a recent production of Joe Orton's play Entertaining Mr Sloane and a school party, I feel inclined to add my two pennyworth.

In the late Seventies, my O-level group was taken to see a film containing gory battle sequences, grisly murders, a horrific haunting, brief nudity and black magic.

To the best of my knowledge, none of our parents complained. Perhaps this was because the film was a production of William Shakespeare's "Scottish play".

Compared to Shakespeare's terrifying drama of the Dark Ages, I have to consider Mr Orton's piece about a sex-mad landlady trying to have her way with at least one of her lodgers much less shocking.

-G E Stroud, Mayo Road, Brighton