Johan Persson
In Nye, Michael Sheen (pictured above) brings cheek and vulnerability to the part of Labour firebrand Aneurin “Nye” Bevan, the politician who, in 1948, founded the National Health Service in the UK.
Bevan, decried for speaking out against the wartime strategy of Winston Churchill (Tony Jayawardena is excellent here), gets a slim shot at salvation after being made health minister – and is tasked with the impossible: create a national health service.
Told mainly through hallucinations and recollections, this enlightening, absurdist play may bring a tear to your eye and make you ask why 1940s-style problems seem to have returned. Catch…
