Mr. Declan Conlon:

Perhaps Mr. Murray is right and "Come On Home" ran for four weeks but the point is that the productions directed by Graham McLaren have all come back for extended runs of three or four months. That is a particular type of work as well. That is a separate question. There is a lack of a spread of artistic vision because too few freelance independent voices are being employed in the theatre. I do not understand why people who have been spending 20, 30 or 40 years in this business are not consulted by the people who run the Abbey Theatre about potential shows. As I have said, if somebody is not in a company, he or she does not hear about it. When somebody is in a company, the cast for that company consists of the members of that company. Those are the people who get cast so there are no open auditions for those productions. That company has its own core members who are cast in that production so there are no open auditions for it. Will the casting department be reinstated?