Russell Beale, acting in John Caird's cathedral-like production in 2000, soon after the death of his own mother, was often almost totally still, as if misery were making him heavy.
I know that I did not deserve their kindness, any more than I deserved the miseries I was made to suffer.
"I was making a film about people's misery," he said.
There may have to be – and for all I know there is – a special sort of counselling for those whose misery at a death is made even worse by knowing that, however compassionate, they did help to bring it about.
Natasha Walter from The Guardian wrote, "Hosseini is skilled at telling a certain kind of story, in which events that may seem unbearable - violence, misery and abuse - are made readable.
Thousands of civilians have been killed in Saudi-led andstheres, and there's a real risk that misery was 'made in Britain'.
There are lots of people whose lives are made a misery by other people.
How often do we hear of people's lives being made a misery by the pestiferousness of trolls, when the obvious remedy is to withdraw from whatever social medium the trolls are making their life a misery on.
As Amy Callaghan, a 16-year-old Girlguiding Advocate, says: "Every day, many girls' lives are made a misery by sexist comments, sexual harassment and abuse at school.
Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.
"The government's new measures are a weaker rebrand, making it harder for the police, councils and housing associations to take tough enforcement action when people's lives are made a misery by antisocial bullies or nuisance neighbours.
