![]() ![]() That’s left to the last 15 minutes or so. It is fun, actual fun, a little gross-out in places – the entry about some poor bloke who smeared his penis down a lampost is, frankly, horrifying – but always enjoyable. ![]() It’s mostly funny and light, with Kay reading out lurid extracts from the journal he kept as a junior doctor, interspersed with some acerbic audience chat and daft medical-themed reworking of pop songs. On a prosaic level, the show – which was due to come to London earlier in the year but didn’t, because of The Obvious – is a technically simple affair, partly staged to road test safety measures at the Apollo ahead of the ambitious return of the musical ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ next month.īut it’s also the perfect piece to reopen with. But frankly I’ve been to enough tenth-full matinees to know what real social distancing looks like. Or at least as heaving and happy as is permitted in the social distancing era. And the Apollo Theatre was heaving and happy. I caught up with its reopening show, doctor-turned-comic Adam Kay’s NHS monologue ‘This Is Going To Hurt’ – adapted from his hit book of the same name – a week after its opening night. The West End is back! And not just grimly ‘technically back’. ![]()
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