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UNCOVERED: Tim price | History Defined

Nye at the National Theatre: 'Michael Sheen shines'

3/5 Michael Sheen plays the founder of the NHS in this fine, if patchy, crowd-pleaser

Evening Standard

Odyssey ’84 review – the miners’ strike gets a Homeric twist

Tim Price’s play links a 1980s coal miner with Odysseus in an affecting if heavy-handed mythological drama

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Nye; The Lonely Londoners; Hadestown – review

Larkiness overtakes Tim Price’s hallucinatory new play about the founder of the NHS; Roy Williams’s adaptation of Sam Selvon’s great Windrush novel pulses with brio; and Anaïs Mitchell’s underworld musical squeezes into the West End

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Nye at the National Theatre review: Michael Sheen brings zest to this lumpy story of the founder of the NHS

The Welsh actor’s charisma gets this playfully earnest show over the line

Evening Standard

Nye review – Michael Sheen looks back at the difficult birth of the NHS

Sheen stars as Aneurin Bevan in Tim Price’s drama, unfolding in flashbacks from a hospital bed

The Guardian - UK

The playwrights fighting for the NHS: ‘We only engage in a moment of crisis’

From Michael Sheen’s portrayal of the organisation’s founder to a frank tale of the modern challenges faced by its staff, theatres are exploring the history, and fragile future, of our health service

The Guardian - UK

Protest Song review – grief, rage and a singalong in Occupy movement drama

This timely revival of Tim Price’s monologue about a rough sleeper drawn into the world of activism leaves little space for vulnerability

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Oliver Townend keeps heat on leader Tim Price as he chases third Burghley title

The Independent UK

Play about NHS creator Nye Bevan is among 12 new National Theatre plays

‘Epic and deeply personal’ Nye by Tim Price will star Michael Sheen and be directed by Rufus Norris

The Guardian - UK

Price leaps to rare heights - now to stay there

World No.2 eventing rider Jonelle Price has the perfect yardstick and No.1 supporter, as she turns her attention to the Paris Olympics, she tells Suzanne McFadden.

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