"We have a lot of A-level students in the audience who are studying the play at school and (the new prologue) makes it clear what is going on," states Liza Goddard, Mrs Hardcastle in Chichester Festival's She Stoops to Conquer, reviewed by Rachel Wareing (The Argus, November 21).
Years ago, I acted in and directed the play (the latter with Barrie Rutter as Tony Lumpkin), but from Ms Wareing's review, I would have been totally bemused as to its content. One third of the review concerned the new prologue and its author, most of the remainder, Liza Goddard and her complex private life. Nothing wrong with theatre gossip but the play's purported difficulty, mentioned at least twice in the review, was made doubly dense to this reader, at least, by the piling on of seeming irrelevancies.
- Frederick Robinson, De La Warr Parade, Bexhill
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