Michael Billington may well believe that Trevor Nunn’s 1976 production of Macbeth was the best (Profile, 30 December) but the one time I used a video of this version as a teaching aid, a much more critical audience of Oldham teenagers collapsed with laughter at Lady M’s sleep-walking scene and continued to mimic her wailing (which they likened to a whistling kettle) for some time afterwards. My vote for the best production goes to Northern Broadsides, Halifax, 2002.
Ruth Eversley
Paulton, Somerset
• Your editorial (29 December) glibly suggests cutting “over-generous pensioner benefits” in a basket of suggestions to improve social mobility. May I suggest that the author of the piece reads a Guardian article from a couple of months ago (British pensions ‘among worst in developed world’, 21 October).
Keith Busby
St Agnes, Cornwall
• “Report attacks ‘unacceptable’ suicide rate at Woodhill prison” (29 December). Is there an acceptable rate, then?
Emeritus Professor Philip Burnard
Cardiff
• Some revellers may be blowing in the wind and perhaps a hard rain’s gonna fall with Storm Dylan (Report, 30 December).
Phil Fletcher
Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex
• Occasionally a pint of milk is stolen from my doorstep. I was expecting two pints this morning; instead I found one pint and a £5 note. Socially significant (What to expect in 2018, 30 December)?
Chris Birch
London
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