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
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
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