15 OCTOBER 1943, Page 14

THE TRAGEDY OF NAN

Sm,—I have not seen the present performance of Nan. When it was done, before the last war, by some Manchester people, with Mona Limerick as Nan and Iden Payne as Gaffer, it was the loveliest modern play—apart from Synge—that I have ever seen. I have had good fun ever since in maintaining that it is the best English tragedy since the Elizabethans. It would be good fun now to argue with your critic far beyond the limits of paper control " It is clear that with such a set of characters the muse of tragedy can have nothing to do," says Mr. Redfern. With that same tonuny-gun you can shoot up King Lear.—