Valdramar

Shame on you for allowing Gordon Campbell to embarrass himself in public again. While one might agree that Downstage's arrival at its tenth birthday is not likely to be as sensational as Mr Campbell's arrival at his, surely few of your readers will have been able to avoid the conclusion that "Valdramar" is really quite a remarkable show—and almost certainly so not only in virtue of having provoked such an extraordinary display of spite and blind (deaf) aggression on the part of your emissary.

Since Mr Campbell himself pointed out that his ill-disposed statement was in no way intended to be construed as any kind of reflection on "Valdramar" (i.e. that it would constitute a public defecation rather than defamation), one wonders what prompted you to include it on a page customarily reserved for some pretence at informed or informative criticism.

Couldn't you please arrange for the catatonic Mr Campbell to have his next paroxysms in complete Cartesian privacy?