Nye, National Theatre review: Michael Sheen is perfect in this surefire hit

Nimble study of Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan, firebrand Welsh health minister who founded the NHS, is a taut and fluid triumph

Nimble study of Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan, firebrand Welsh health minister who founded the NHS, is a taut and fluid triumph

Michael Sheen and Tony Jayawardena in Tim Price’s new play Nye at the National Theatre The action starts – where else? – in a hospital. Nye is recovering from an operation for the stomach cancer that would kill him in 1960 and in a morphine-induced fever dream, scenes from his past spring into vivid life. That charismatic actorplays the effervescent Bevan, whirling through the entire play in a pair of stripy pyjamas.

Characters are sketched without becoming caricatures and familiar events – Labour’s 1945 landslide election victory, for example – are often dealt with in a line or two, allowing the lion’s share of the running time to be given to vivid evocations of specific moments, in which the personal and political almost always intertwine.

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