It is a modest, warm and ultimately touching work.
This classy and ultimately touching addition to the West End proves him wrong.
Karita Mattila has waited a long time before taking on the Prima Donna, and this first attempt is an unbridled, ultimately touching assumption.
It is also entertaining and ultimately touching in its determination to recapture lost time, to portray a younger, more carefree self and to bring back a lost loved one, if only on the page.
As with many painters, Mr. Schwontkowski's sense of what makes a painting work is keener concerning ones he didn't make than ones he did, but it is ultimately touching to see loyalties and debts so openly and astutely acknowledged.
The bottle of liquor may be a stagily shopworn prop in this little drama of life and death, but the play and its message of ebbing time are ultimately touching.
This is a gripping and ultimately touching couple of hours, made all the more compelling by Daniel Buckroyd's staging, in which a kitchen table becomes an African waterhole and a cuddly white toy lion is transformed into an expressive giant puppet.
The results are richly entertaining and ultimately touching, though not without some issues.
