THEATRE ROYAL DRESS CIRCLE.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 941, 14 July 1903, Page 2

THEATRE ROYAL DRESS CIRCLE.

(To the Editor Gisborne Times.)

Sir,—Kindly allow me through the medium of your widely-circulated paper to express my intense dissatisfaction with the sitting accommodation provided in the dress circle of your Theatre Royal.

I -with my two daughters patronis- | ed Rickards’ excellent show last night, and on arrival at.' the hall [ were duly ushered into the se-called dress circle, which comprises long, hard-backed, comfortless slabs of wooden forms without a cushion or adornments of any description, except a covering of dust- which served to spoil our evening gowns, to don which for such an awful “ circle ”, proves to be a perfect fiasco. I have visited many theatres and halls in small towns in Australia and New Zealand, hut for discomfort have never met a circle like that of the Gisborne theatre. Surely such an up-to-date, flourishing, and thriving little town like Gisborne could and should insist on an improvement in this important and essential feature of the house, by either providing a few decent and comfortable chairs, or—if the chairs are too costly—by transforming those comfortless, dusty, hard, bone-cracking and ungainly slabs of benches into something civilised, by. upholstering, and putting a few cushions thereon, so that patrons may enjoy the play with some degree of ease and comfort.

Bluch as we should like to again visit Rickards’ to-night (Tuesday), we really feel inclined to forego the joy and spare the bones of our body, which are still aching after last night’s sitting.—Yours, etc., WIDOW TWANKEY.