WE have just returned from York Theatre Royal, full of questions and deep, deep thoughts.

We have been to see African Snow' and been spellbound, challenged and entertained.

No one going tonight was expecting easy answers, or if so, they were certainly at the wrong production.

The cast were excellent, the set versatile and evocative, the music moving and stirring.

The director, Paul Burbridge, was inspired in the way he encouraged the actors to change their colour, never mind their poise and their voices.

I read The Press's review of the play (Struggling with slavery burden, April 4) with some dismay.

Yes, African Snow is thick with words, falling on us like a blizzard sometimes. But we met both John Newton and Olaudah Equiano, alive through those words, wrestling with the dilemmas they faced. Murray Watts was right to write it that way.

I hope many more people will go and be enthralled too. It is not just about what happened 200 years ago. John Newton found it difficult to see the injustices in his time. This play challenges us to look at today's injustices and maybe, even, do something.

Carole Meikle, Beckfield Lane, Acomb, York.