I’m afraid Edinburgh’s Lyceum theatre is wrong in believing its staging of Peter Handke’s play The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other was the first entirely using volunteers (Vast cast: Wordless play puts 450 characters on the stage, 29 May). At Plymouth’s Drum theatre in 2014 a cast of 22 non-professionals took on the 450 roles – as an audience member, I thought there was probably as much drama going on behind the scenes as on stage.
Angela Sherlock
Plymouth, Devon
• While it’s endearing to learn that Patti Smith is a fan of the Inspector Morse spinoff Endeavour (Music review, 4 June), she does have previous. In her excellent memoir M Train she reveals her passion for Midsomer Murders. She’s also partial to A Touch of Frost. Not sure about Vera, but she did write The Revenge of Vera Gemini for Blue Öyster Cult, so it’s on the cards.
Max Bell
Thame, Oxfordshire
• Ian Jack’s booze-filled article on 2 June writes of the long-ago Scottish pub hiding “behind painted or curtained windows” full of “talkative men and tobacco smoke”. In 1957, when I was 13, I remember passing such an establishment in Hamilton, Lanarkshire on my way to school and being mystified by the sign in the window: “Women not supplied”.
Chris Yates
Ampthill, Bedfordshire
• A little ironic that a campaign against erosion of mountain trails mobilises a two-mile human chain (Country diary, 4 June).
Michael Cunningham
Wolverhampton
• This psychologist can’t stand marshmallows (Letters, 4 June).
Dr Richard Mallows
Past president, British Psychological Society
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