1 NOVEMBER 1997, Page 34

Computer literate

Sir: I cannot see why David Edgar takes me to task (Letters, 25 October) for refusing to help a student buy a computer on which to work at her `playwriting studies', suggesting instead that she use a ball-point. So her first play has been snapped up by the Bush Theatre. Good. Well done. But what is be saying? That the computer wrote it?

Keith Waterhouse 29 Kenway Road, London SW5