Have a Little Faith

I was nonplused and shocked at F. Kathleen Foley’s mean-spirited, dismissive take on my play “Stolen Time” (“E.T.-Themed ‘Time’: Hilarity, Call Home,” Oct. 8). Rarely is a play dismissed so cavalierly in The Times.

Claiming the stage is set for “high hilarity,” Foley apparently fails to recognize that “Stolen Time” is both a comedy and a drama, a fact that other reviewers were clear about.

The play is not simply a “high-concept” romp at a UFO conference that appeals to “the lunatic fringe.” It’s also about the need people have to find faith--any faith--in their lives, and how that faith can both comfort and, in the wrong hands, be abused.

MICHAEL R. FARKASH

Granada Hills