Star-crossed staging

SIR – I am 101 years old. When I sat for the School Certificate in 1936, the set Shakespeare play was Romeo and Juliet. We were taken to see the London production with Laurence Olivier, Peggy Ashcroft, John Gielgud, and Edith Evans (as the Nurse).

I do not remember being traumatised by the events in the play. Was I hard-hearted, or just more grown-up than today’s teenagers? Mary Wilson

Sudbury, Suffolk

SIR – Oh dear! How could I have got it so wrong all these years? I thought the actors in Romeo and Juliet really did die at the end of the play (“Woke warning: Romeo and Juliet is not real,” report, August 21), and a new pair of actors were chosen for the next performance.

Guy Williams

Nailsworth, Gloucestershire