Minerva, ChichesterJames Nesbitt and Sheila Hancock star in Tim Firth's touching comedy about a dysfunctional group of relatives Musicals head inexorably towards big ensemble numbers, a convention underlining the genre's default moral of redemptive togetherness. So This Is My Family is striking in having no choral singing at all. Even when several of the six characters sing together, they hold their own lines contra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM on April 30, 2019