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Nye, National Theatre
That proud Welsh actor Michael Sheen stars as Aneurin “Nye” Bevan, the founder of
the NHS and seminal figure in Clement Attlee’s post-War Labour government. Rufus
Norris, the outgoing National Theatre artistic director, directs this new drama by Tim
Price, which has Nye looking back over his eventful life, including leaving school at 14
and time as a miner working underground, in a near-death fever dream. FM
24 February – 11 May (nationaltheatre.org.uk, 020 3989 5455)
Visual arts
Angelica Kauffman
Royal Academy, London
