Aneurin Bevan and Jennie Lee were comrades and flatmates who together fought and preached for socialism as they saw it; he the Tredegar firebrand on the Labour backbenches, she the miner’s daughter from Fife who became a Socialist MP before she was old enough to vote.

Then they were married; he deeply in love with her; she on the rebound from a tragic love affair. Both of them were loved and loathed by their fellow MP’s; he the Bollinger Bolshevik; she his Lady Macbeth, the dark angel at his shoulder. Life together unfolded through the desolate war years, the trials of founding the NHS, and the vicious internal feuds of the 1950’s. But as it did so their love deepened and matured. This is the story of a partnership that became one of the outstanding political marriages of the twentieth century. 

This is the story of Nye and Jennie.

www.nyeandjennie.com

Photograph of Nye and Jennie standing facing each other with a gramophone and chandelier.

The show was a co-production with Aneurin Leisure.

It premiered at The Metropole, Abertillery in November 2017.

It revisited The Metropole to begin a tour in October - November 2018 which visited:

Blackwood Miners' Institue, Caerphilly

The Welfare, Ystradgynlais

Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Maesteg Town Hall

The Riverfront, Newport

Theatr Brycheiniog

Galeri, Caernarfon

The Studio, Edinburgh

Garth Olwg Lifelong Learning Centre, Pontypridd

Theatr Stiwt

The Hafren, Newton

Neuadd Dwyfor, Pwllheli

Pontardawe Arts Centre

The Ffwrnes, Llanelli

The Borough Theatre, Abergavenny

The Torch Theatre, Milford Haven

Cast
Louise Collins
Jennie Lee
Gareth John Bale
Nye Bevan
Production
Meredydd Barker
Writer
Geinor Styles
Director
Kitty Callister
Designer
Jak Poore
Composer
Maggie Rawlinson
Choreographer
Emma Stevens Johnson
Voice Coach
Hristo Takov
Lighting Designer

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