In her profile of British playwright David Edgar (“Politics, plays and shootouts”, Arts, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, September 7), your theatre critic Sarah Hemming writes that the subject of his new play Here in America is the “1952 falling-out between playwright Arthur Miller and director Elia Kazan, when the latter named names to Senator Joe McCarthy’s anti-communist House Un-American Activities Committee”.
McCarthy’s anti-communist stance is certainly not at issue. But the description, whether Hemming’s or Edgar’s I don’t know, is erroneous as McCarthy during his time in the Senate had nothing to do with a committee of the House of Representatives.
Henry D Fetter
Washington, DC, US
