Just reading the reviews of the TN in the park is very depressing. They used to do good theatre there. Of course, the same can be said of the city. Now, it's just a means of repeating the sensibilities of the television.
Incidentally, after much mulling, I'm more certain than ever that in the letter and the gulling conceit, we were meant to hear "cross-gartered" as wearing a cross, and "yellow starchings" as the ruff. The joke is that M misunderstands. Both the starched ruff and the cross would have been provocative political symbols. (And possibly "Lady of the Strachy as misprint for Stark(ch)y.")
Nowhere in the variorum.