The Human Body review – Keeley Hawes and the NHS in a silver-screen romance

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Donmar Warehouse, London
Hawes and Jack Davenport radiate as postwar lovers in Lucy Kirkwood’s cinephile postwar romantic drama set against the birth of the NHS

As debate on the future of the National Health Service rises in urgency week by week (notwithstanding the current junior doctors’ strike), theatre is doing the job of reminding us of all we stand to lose by going back to its beginnings.

Michael Sheen has just assumed the role of Aneurin Bevan in Nye at the National Theatre, while Lucy Kirkwood sets Bevan’s 1948 vision of healthcare “available to all, free of charge” as the backdrop to this love story.

At Donmar Warehouse, London, until 13 April

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