[{"node":{"title":"Boyd013","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1953 Oct 9th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd013","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Election, The Critics","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd013","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd013_3.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff9th October 1953\n\nDear St.John,\n\nI enclose a copy of Mrs.Martin's Man: If you want another\none I can provide vou with it. I Have already given Goldblatt\none for the Group Theatre. He has read It but still seems\nunsure what to do. I think he and McCandless are wondering\nwhether to put Mrs.Martin's Man or Martha on at Christmas. All\nI can extract from him is that he will give the plays good dates\n- either Christmas or Easter. He told me that- he had promised\nyou that too. He seems to be of the opinion that Mrs.Martin's\ntan is a bit stark for Christmas audiences - not enough laughs:\nso possibly Martha may be lighter. 1 don't mind what happens so\nlong as we get a reasonably good date.\n\nThe Election will soon be upon us here, but the prospect of\nit bores me, seeing that the result is in no doubt, and all the\nspeeches are the same.\n\nHow are things with you? I suppose you are as busy as ever.\nGeorge Buchanan very kindly sent me some of your old Observer\narticles: they read as freshly as the day on which they were\npublished. Leonora is right, you must publish them soon.\nSurely it wouldn't be so very much work. Couldn't she do the\nediting?\n\nI am just now reading a very good book indeed, called\nPlaywright At Work by John van Druten. The Arts Theatre is\njust about to produce Joe's play Down The Heather Glen, which\nI will be going to see next week. I run a programne called\n\"The Arts in Ulster\u201d which covers the theatre, Art Exhibitions\netc'., it is really a crib of The Critics. Ihis is the only\ncriticism of any value we have here, and sometimes it is not\nbat at all. My trouble usually is getting a good dramatic\ncritic.\n\nI will tell you when Goldblatt reaches a decision. Any\nluck with Esperanza yet?\n\nEver,\n\nDr.St.John Ervlne,\n\nHoney Ditches,\nSeaton, Devon.\n","Type":"Text"}}]