Sir, – The caption under a photograph in your online edition ("Abbey Theatre celebrates rich 110-year history in 110 moments", December 27th) credits the Abbey Theatre with "the Irish premiere" of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in 1969 when in fact it had been produced at the Pike in 1955, where it ran for six months followed by a 10-week national tour and a later transfer to the Gate.
The recent television documentary on Brendan Behan failed to mention the first production of The Quare Fellow at the Pike in 1954, giving the erroneous impression that it was first staged by Joan Littlewood in London in 1956.
Alan Simpson directed both first Irish productions. – Yours, etc,
CHRISTOPHER
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FITZ-SIMON,
Dún Laoghaire,
Co Dublin.