46 A Sleep of Prisoners " SIR.-1 feel that I cannot
be the only one of your readers to haye been mystified by your critic's discovery of the presence of Jonah and the whale in Christopher Fry's new play A Sleep of Prisoners which had its premiere in Oxford last week. One wonders if the critic bothered to see the play through to the end or even read the helpful programme-note by the author, which fully explained the significance of the four biblical stories which form the dream-sequence. While admiring the critic's ingenuity in replacing the Fry furnace by what he may have been think- ing of as the Bridie belly, 1 feel that the distortion makes such nonsense of the play that an apology to the author, producer and actors would
seem the least possible atonement.—Yours, &c., W. P. JACKSON. University College. Oxford.
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