Exactly at whom is Mike (reviewer) Bacon aiming his piece on Don't Dress For Dinner (The Argus, October 2)?

I don't have a TV so the use of parenthetic middle names for actors - as in Robert (Drop The Dead Donkey) Duncan, Melanie (Generation Game) Stace and Vicki ('Allo 'Allo) Michelle - is a complete waste of time and probably insulting to these actors, all of whom I'm sure have done more than one part in their careers.

Are the TV series names in parentheses merely a publicity element designed to get me to buy a ticket for the show's performances at The (Crawley theatre) Hawth - in which case, it's cheap - or am I failing to get the idea that I might just be interested in the play itself rather than because it has A N Actor from a (now out-of-date) TV show in it - in which case, it's pathetic?

Just wondering... it's not (very) important but probably (just) a sign of the times... shame, innit?

-Gavin (who?) Robertson, feedback@gavinrobertson.com