I played “Looseleaf Harper” in Happy Birthday Wanda June, the play that you reviewed in the September 29 issue of The Poly. Your review contained some factual errors that wouldn’t even have escaped vegetables, had they watched the play. Granted vegetables don’t write very well, so maybe it’s good you didn’t have a cucumber reviewthe show. Your captions label Duncan Pickard as Steve Banis, and also state that Pickard played Springer’s husband; those are errors. Anyone who had seen the show would never have mistaken bearded Banis for clean shaven Pickard. Another caption states that Springer played Swimm’s older sister. In the show no such character exists.

Perhaps the person who wrote the captions was uninformed? The rest of the review possessed a few good comments here and there, but at best I’d say the review was a souped up summary. Sometimes the meaning of sentences got lost due to the bombastic nature of the convoluted commentary—much like the sentence I just wrote.

Maybe the writer did see the show, and the captions were just written in haste. However, as someone who worked for nearly two months on the show, in the future, I know that I would greatly appreciate a review with a little more thought put into it. I thought the review for Evening of Performance 2004 was a work of art, and I look forward to seeing high quality reviews like that one in the future.

Johnny Pettengill