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Actor Dave Johns, who starred in I, Daniel Blake says he “wants to make people angry again” with a new stage adaptation of the Ken Loach film.
Johns has written a new version of the award-winning 2016 film, which highlighted poverty across the country.
The actor and writer told BBC News that he was moved to write the play to keep the effects of the cost-of-living crisis on the news agenda.
The show premieres in Newcastle on Wednesday, before touring the country.
I, Daniel Blake follows a 59-year-old joiner who must rely on welfare after a recent heart attack leaves him unable to work.
He befriends a single mother and her two children as they attempt to navigate the benefits system.
The film won a Bafta and the Palme d’Or award at the Cannes Film Festival, but also attracted controversy at the time after some senior Conservative MPs who said it portrayed job centre workers unfairly.
The Guardian’s Mark Kermode described the film as “a battle cry for the dispossessed” in his five-star review, while Variety’s Owen Gleiberman said it was “one of Loach’s finest films”.
“While it too often sands the complications off what you sense should feel like an uncomfortably splintery issue, in its best moments, it’s a quietly fearsome piece of drama,” wrote the Telegraph’s Robbie Collin. BBC
