Peter Nichols Plays: One

By Peter Nichols

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0413648702
• ISBN13: 9780413648709
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.1" x 8.3"