Ricky Gervais: Humanity, review: With his most cohesive and heart-on-sleeve show yet, it's good to have him back:
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Daily Telegraph lead theatre critic; [email protected]. “It was a long time ago.” “I don’t think that matters.”
- Still love this Slattery quote - “What is important isn’t someone’s body, it’s whether their smile reaches their eyes.”
- Replying to @georgegallowayTheir soldiers gang raped my grandmother. A life long trauma. Had the Soviets not sided with the Nazis in the first place Poland might have been spared incalculable suffering. And their “liberation”was an act of further subjugation.
- The National Theatre, emblem of our cultural vitality, cannot now afford to keep on its front of house staff. Let that sink in. That is an abject national humiliation. These weeks will never be forgotten.
- Replying to @metpoliceuk and @TellMamaUKHollow words when you tolerate hate speech being projected onto Big Ben. Stop taking the public for fools.
- If Cineworld goes and the Culture Recovery Fund fails to prop up enough of the country’s theatres, we could see towns that once had a playhouse and a cinema culturally emptied out in the space of a year.
- She didn’t need an accolade from the Stage, she didn’t need a UK theatre award. Lyn Gardner has been an indisputably good thing for the Guardian, for British theatre and for the reviewing culture. She made us all travel further and work harder. Shocked she’s going. Irreplaceable
- Judging by the honking of car horns and general shouts of joy in the streets, the people of Stratford upon Avon are really getting excited about Shakespeare this evening
- if the young are, as reported, likely to shrug off this virus, can't London theatre just restrict itself to the under-25s for the next month and charge everyone a tenner? Full houses, a revolution in theatre-going... (maybe)
- Replying to @georgegallowayChamberlain secretly agreed to invade and carve up Poland? Interesting take.
- Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word – the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages, Lasting a little while longer: Never such innocence again.
- Not a phrase misjudged, not a look or movement mistimed, not a beat of comedy missed, not a nuance untouched. 5 stars for Matthew Warchus's superlative Present Laughter, which shares the joy of acting, and mines its lonely flipside:
- Hytner: "This is a much better plan than anyone expected and it’s a big achievement for DCMS. Obviously there’s a lot of work to done ... But I warmly welcome the way Rishi Sunak and Oliver Dowden have responded to the tenacious and detailed lobbying of the entire arts sector.”
