★★★☆☆What do we do when the world is falling apart? Maybe we fall apart too. Or maybe we huddle together, talk and listen. The piece is an affecting testimony to the power of kindness and community, and has a gentle potency that cuts through our modern babel of political division, self-righteous, echo-chamber opinion, hot-take fury and vicious trolling. Dramatically, it’s undernourished and overstretched, and despite a sensitive and delicately acted production by James Grieve, its unhurried depiction…

Source: The Times January 21, 2020 17:08 UTC