Nichols Plays: 1: Day in the Death of Joe Egg;The National Health; Hearts and Flowers; The Freeway; Forget-me-not Lane

by Peter Nichols

Overview

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 jourbanalist 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780413648709
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/11/2006
Series:	Contemporary Dramatists
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.18(d)

Table of Contents

Day in the Death of Joe Egg;The National Health; Hearts and Flowers; The Freeway; Forget-me-not Lane