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The Years review: The uncensored inner life of women that's unsettling men, writes PATRICK MARMION

According to reports, they became faint and woozy during a vivid abortion scene halfway through an adaptation of the feminist memoir

For the Joads, in Frank Galati’s seminal adaptation of the book, that means a 2,000-mile trek with 13 passengers including grandparents, Ma, Pa, pregnant daughter, and a jailbird son who’s picked up a former preacher on the road.Packed into a creaking old banger, they endure a trial by hunger, humiliation, disappointment and violence. Following Michael Sheen’s crusading portrait of Nye Bevan at the National Theatre, and Keeley Hawe’s trail-blazing post-War GP-turned-MP at the Donmar Warehouse earlier this year, Unwin focuses on Clare Burt as the auburn-haired firebrand Labour MP for Jarrow, Ellen Wilkinson. Andrew Woodall’s PM Clement Attlee is the stuffed-shirt of legend, Foreign Secretary Ernie Bevin (Clive Wood) is a sentimental West Country boy, Chancellor Hugh Dalton (Miles Richardson) is a fuming stiff, and Health Minister Nye Bevan (Richard Harrington) is a priggish Welsh Dalek.

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