Following a sell-out run earlier this year, a major play starring MICHAEL SHEEN as one of Wales’s most influential figures will return to Cardiff in August 2025.
NYE, the smash-hit co-production between the National Theatre and Wales Millennium Centre, will return to the Welsh capital for a strictly limited run at the Donald Gordon Theatre on 22nd – 30th August 2025.
Michael (The Queen, Twilight, The Damned United, Masters of Sex, Under Milk Wood, Good Omens) will reprise his iconic title role of Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan, with further casting to be announced.
Tickets for the revival of Nye will be on public sale from Friday 11th October 2024, with Wales Millennium Centre members able to skip the queues to secure their tickets days before public release. Find out more about Ffrind membership at HERE.
Nye charts the life and legacy of Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan, a former coal miner from Tredegar who transformed the UK’s welfare state. It is written by Welsh playwright and screenwriter TIM PRICE (Teh Internet is Serious Business) and directed by the National Theatre’s outgoing Artistic Director RUFUS NORRIS (Cabaret – West End, London Road, Small Island).
From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Nye Bevan is often referred to as the politician who’s had the greatest influence on the UK 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 to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Churchill in an epic Welsh fantasia.
The team behind this production once again includes Welsh artists Jess Williams (co-choreographer), Will Stuart (composer) and Francesca Goodridge (revival co-director). The creative team is completed by set designer Vicki Mortimer, costume designer Kinnetia Isidore, lighting designer Paule Constable, co-choreographer Steven Hoggett, sound designer Donato Wharton, projection designer Jon Driscoll, casting by Alastair Coomer CDG and Chloe Blake, dialect coach Patricia Logue, company voice work Cathleen McCarron and Tamsin Newlands, consultant medical advisor Matt Morgan and associate lighting designer Lucy Adams.
You can take a look at our review of Nye from earlier this year, along with audience reaction and interview with Graeme Farrow, Wales Millennium Centre’s Chief Creative and Content Officer – HERE. Or you can watch our opening night film below.
Graeme told us…..
“With the perfect casting of Michael Sheen and powerful writing by Tim Price, combined with our own deep Welsh storytelling roots and the National Theatre’s producing brilliance, Nye undoubtedly struck a chord with audiences here in Cardiff and beyond. We’re thrilled to be giving Wales another chance next year to witness this epic, resonant theatrical experience.
This co-production between the National Theatre and Wales Millennium Centre continues a growing relationship between the two national companies, following the transfer of The Boy with Two Hearts from Cardiff to the National’s Dorfman Theatre in 2022, as well as the ever-increasing touring presentations of National Theatre productions including the multi-award-winning War Horse, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and The Ocean at the End of the Lan
NYE is at Wales Millennium Centre from the 22nd – 30th August 2025. Performances are at 7:30pm each evening with a 2:30pm matinee on Thursday and Saturday.
There is also an age guidance: 12+ (no under 2s)
We can pretty much guarantee the show will once again be completely sold out, and very quickly. Get the date in your diary (Friday 11th October) to get those early tickets. For more information go HERE.
