Culled from anecdotes collected on MyFirstTime.com, the stories, some meant to be funny, some meant to be poignant and sad, move back and forth among four actors (Bill Dawes, Josh Heine, Kathy Searle and Cydnee Welburn) like a game of pass the baton.
District and county councillor Steve Lydon said: "It's a sad move but we have no other alternative".
"It was a very sad and moving service.
"Sweet and Lowdown" is mocking but casually sad, casually moving.
Because it was Christmas Eve and Gina so young, this prospect seemed particularly sad, particularly moving".
What elevates Cumming's performance (or should we say performances?) above an actorly display of virtuosity is that it is also sad and moving.
If it were set in the contemporary world, it might be tedious, but because it's displaced to this strange dystopia, it's just brilliantly laughable and horrific and silly as well as acute and sad and moving.
I was particularly impressed by a room devoted to images of female saints, including a Santa Soledade with an expression so sad and moving that it reminded me of a Modigliani painting.
From asking whether, if a friend died, it would be "a good reason to cry," she progressed to making a sad and moving impromptu speech at a memorial service for someone who had helped her.
It was rather sad, and moving, as he discovered that his liberal credentials weren't quite as impeccable as he'd imagined – it turned out his maternal great-grandparents had been flute-flaunting, Catholic-bating bigots back in Northern Ireland.
