Richard Burton as Henry V, 1951. Matthew Rhys returns to his native Wales to inhabit the baritone Shakespearean actor—and fellow countryman—in a one-man play By Richard Morrison The way Matthew Rhys tells it, from his Brooklyn Heights apartment in New York, he had no choice but to return to his native Wales this autumn. “It’s as if all the planets were aligned,” says the Cardiff-born actor, 50, who has spent most of the past 20 years starring in American-made films and TV series suc...
