Dear Jenny,

I thought that Free Press reviewers had enough Fringe experience to be able to, in a constructive way, be critical of a show. It looks as if Randall King didn’t get the memo. His review of La La Luna Sea (Free Press July 21, 2023) characterizes the show as SFAF (Strictly Friends and Family) and then applauds the fact that there are enough members in the cast to make the show successful on this basis. If he is trying to be clever, or worse yet to be funny, he isn’t. His review is not constructive, it is demoralizing. He knows the kind of impact this review will have on the performers and the show generally, and he should be ashamed of himself.

Michelle Cook