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

di Peter Nichols (Autore)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1991

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.

• Autore: Peter Nichols
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Collana: Contemporary Dramatists
• Anno: 1991
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 528 p.
• Dimensioni: 203 x 127 mm
• Peso: 616 gr.
• EAN: 9780413648709

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