AS I was enjoying Neil Cooper’s article on the new artistic chief for Dundee Rep (“New artistic chief Panton spells out another great season for Rep”, The Herald, May 30) and read that Andrew Panton, when chatting to Emily Winter, Irene Macdougall and Ann Louise Ross, “realised that they’d never really done something all together” I thought that I must have misread that statement. Out came the boxes of programmes and I dipped in.

Going over to Eden Court Theatre, in Inverness, from Skye over the years was a treat to which we looked forward, and I always kept the programmes. The three ladies mentioned above all appeared in The Seagull, Flora The Red Menace and Cabaret. There were stunning performances from those three brilliant actors. The Seagull particularly, with the Lithuanian director, Rimas Tuminas, the composer Latenas Faustas and the lighting designer Richard Moffatt left me speechless. I have never before nor since seen lighting employed in that way. Dundee Rep is a miracle, having as it does the cream of acting talent. They are superb.

Aside from “The Rep” I have to add that Jimmy Chisholm, Siobhan Redmond and company in Thon Man Molière by Liz Lochhead, at The Lyceum in Edinburgh last year, were pretty damn good too; so much so that I went three times. That programme is also in my box. You never know when you need to dig out these programmes to relive marvellous occasions in the theatre. I just wish that I lived nearer to Dundee, or maybe I should further investigate the bus services.

Thelma Edwards,

Old Comrades Hall,

Hume, Kelso.