Lenny Henry, thanks for bringing theatre to life | Elizabeth Day
When the actor forgot his lines, he almost made me warm to this stilted, overrated art formI went to the theatre last week to see the newly knighted Lenny Henry in a production of Educating Rita at the Chichester Festival theatre.During the first half, Henry, who was playing the disillusioned university professor Frank, stumbled over a monologue about subjective versus objective criticism and then dried up compl…