Nye

2025 Revised and Updated Edition

One man’s dream of the NHS.

From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin ’Nye’ Bevan is often referred to as the politician with greatest influence on our country without ever being Prime Minister.

Confronted with death, Nye’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life, from childhood and mining underground to Parliament and fights with Churchill, in an epic Welsh fantasia.

Written by Tim Price (Teh Internet is Serious Business), this celebration of the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state premiered at the National Theatre in 2024.

This revised and updated edition was published to coincide with the National Theatre and Wales Millennium Centre co-production in July 2025, with Michael Sheen (Under Milk Wood) reprising his role as Nye Bevan.

Tim price is a Welsh playwright and screenwriter. His plays include For Once, Salt, Root and Roe (winner of Best English Language playwright at the Theatre Critics of Wales Award), I’m With The Band, Candylion The Insatiable Inflatable, Praxis Makes Perfect, The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning (winner of the James Tait Black prize for drama), Protest Song, Teh Internet Is Serious Business, Isla, Nye, Force Majeure and Odyssey ’84. He is co-founder of Welsh new writing company Dirty Protest and co-founder and Literary Manager for the Welsh National Theatre.