HAIL ‘HAMLET’

I couldn’t help seeing the put-down of Charles Marowitz’s “Hamlet” signed by J. Conley, “a wary first subscriber with the Los Angeles Actors Theatre” (Calendar Letters, May 19).

I had been debating whether to renew my subscription to the Mark Taper Forum or sign up with the LAAT, and after seeing the Marowitz “Hamlet”--which has the most theatrical and thought-provoking production of this play I had ever seen--I immediately opted for the LAAT.

I too read Marowitz’s strong words about the Taper and found his production to be the most stringent criticism he could possibly have made of the Taper’s tame and unadventurous policies.

ANTON SCHREIBER

Los Angeles