Cryptic Criticism ...?

I am indeed sorry to have missed Sun, Moon and Earth's latest performance "The Total Eclipse of the Moon", especially since I gather that their newly refurbished premises The Sky have none of Downstage's problems with airconditioning nor of Circa's difficulties with sightliness. I am grateful to have had my attention drawn to this production by your drama critic John Bailey—whose review of Red Mole, I might add, I much preferred to your own. I am impressed with your critic's ideological position concerning the function of theatre in New Zealand today and I appreciate the irony in the headline given to his review—"Stumbling in the Dark". In these benighted times we should be grateful for such lucidity and enlightenment as he offers.