REZA ABDOH

I read in horrified amazement “Impresario of the Avant-Garde” (by Richard Stayton, Dec. 23/30), about hauteur auteur Reza Abdoh’s puerile, indulgent and relentless rehashings of Antonin Artaudisms. Egad, if Abdoh learns of Gordon Craig’s uber -marionettes, there will be absolutely no one to question the new emperor’s solipsistic rampages, which his networking coterie of unschooled mentors have thrust upon theater as new ( sic ) and revolutionary ( sick-sic ).

Perhaps my favorite comedy team, P.T. Barnum and Sam Beckett, best sum up: There must be a sucker born every minute. There cannot be a sucker born every minute. There is a sucker born every minute.

LONNIE BURR

North Hollywood