Nichols Plays: 1: Day In The Death Of Joe Egg;the National Health; Hearts And Flowers; The Freeway; Forget-me-not

by Peter Nichols

2020-12-29 04:03:14

A rich selection from the best of Nichols'' work up to and including his award-winning Privates on Parade A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is based on the author''s experience of having a mentally handicapped child and won the John Whiting Award; The... Read more
A rich selection from the best of Nichols'' work up to and including his award-winning Privates on Parade



A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is based on the author''s experience of having a mentally handicapped child and won the John Whiting Award; The National Health was commissioned by Kenneth Tynan for the National theatre and follows the story of a Labour MP who goes into a state hospital suffering from a nervous collapse. It won the Evening Standard Best Play Award; Forget-me-not Lane is a trip down memory lane from the author''s own childhood growing up in the West Country; Hearts and Flowers is a TV play about the rivalry between two brothers, one a school teacher living in Bristol the other a successful news journalist and their shared interest in a woman; Freeway is set in a traffic jam and attempts to answer the question of why the automobile has come to be seen to represent liberty incarnate in the modern era.



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File size8 X 5 X 1 in
Print pages528
PublisherBloomsbury
Publication date October 11, 2006
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780413648709

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