Nye at the National Theatre: 'Michael Sheen shines'

Nye at the National Theatre: 'Michael Sheen shines'

Michael Sheen plays the founder of the NHS in this fine, if patchy, crowd-pleaser

Review: Nye at The Olivier - southlondon.co.uk

He lives, he dies, he even sings and dances The welcome return of Tim Price’s Nye opens with Aneurin Bevan dying, we see the heart monitor as a projected backdrop looking close to flatlining. His life ticks away in beeps, writes Michael Holland. The privacy curtains are rolled away to reveal Nye Bevan (Michael Sheen) recovering from a long operation, around his bed the halcyon days of the early NHS, with fully-staffed wards. His wife, Jennie Lee…