THANK goodness I ignored Lucy Stephens review of It's A Madhouse performed by Rowntree Players last week at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre.

I can't comment on Thursday's performance, to which she referred, but Saturday's was one of the best pieces of drama I have seen in a long while with superb acting all round.

The review mentioned dull staging. I suspect that was the intention! Institutional furniture, institutional props, institutional colours; perhaps chintz and Laura Ashley would be more to Lucy's taste.

The set even had all the little details so often missed such as light switches, exit signs, fire alarm, period fire extinguishers and a pay phone. It was a job well done by all involved.

Mrs L Cammidge,

Huntington Road, York.

Updated: 09:38 Friday, March 11, 2005