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Nichols, Peter Richard was born on July 31, 1927 in Bristol, England. Son of Richard George and Violet Annie (Poole) Nichols.
(A rich selection from the best of Nichols' work up to and...)
A rich selection from the best of Nichols' work up to and including his award-winning Privates on Parade This volume continues the stage plays of Peter Nichols, newly revised and introduced by the author. Chez Nous is about English couples who bring their emotional baggage with them on a holiday to France; Privates on Parade is a hit play inspired by the author's experience in Singapore after the war working for the Combined Services Entertainments where he met among others John Schlesinger and Kenneth Williams at a time when 'mixed' entertainment relied on men dressing up as women; Born in the Gardens is inspired by the author's native city Bristol while Passion Play is a play about passion among the elderly - won Best Play (Evening Standard) in 1981. Poppy (the musical that opened the RSC's residence at the Barbican) is set in the Victorian Far East. It takes a pop at imperial hypocrisy and wickedness and won the Best Musical award.
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A provocative comedy about sex, love and infidelity. Comfortably married for 25 years, Eleanor’s world is turned upside down when her husband begins an affair with their young friend Kate. As the lies mount up, the marriage is stripped bare, revealing illicit desires and hidden passions. A potent mix of desire, intimacy and deception, this new edition of a modern classic and winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play was published alongside its much-anticipated return to the West End in 2013, starring Zoe Wanamaker.
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(London Playbill/Programme 1967)
London Playbill/Programme 1967
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This brilliantly written, deeply moving play about the problems of a young couple with a spastic daughter-the "Joe Egg" of the title-was described by Ronald Bryden in The Observer (London) as a "remarkable play about a nightmare all women must have dreamed at some time, and most men: living with a child born so hopelessly crippled as to be, as the father in it says brutally, a human parsnip. For all that, it has to be described as a comedy, one of the funniest and most touching I've seen. The bridge between its form and content is a simple but brilliant stroke of theatre. Over the years, the author implies, explaining to others how one lives with such a situation becomes a kind of set party piece. This, savagely exaggerated, is what he has written-a recital, interspersed with jazz, imitations and tap-dances, about life with Joe Egg."
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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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(A rich selection from the best of Nichols' work up to and...)
A rich selection from the best of Nichols' work up to and including his award-winning Privates on Parade This volume continues the stage plays of Peter Nichols, newly revised and introduced by the author. Chez Nous is about English couples who bring their emotional baggage with them on a holiday to France; Privates on Parade is a hit play inspired by the author's experience in Singapore after the war working for the Combined Services Entertainments where he met among others John Schlesinger and Kenneth Williams at a time when 'mixed' entertainment relied on men dressing up as women; Born in the Gardens is inspired by the author's native city Bristol while Passion Play is a play about passion among the elderly - won Best Play (Evening Standard) in 1981. Poppy (the musical that opened the Rsc's residence at the Barbican) is set in the Victorian Far East. It takes a pop at imperial hypocrisy and wickedness and won the Best Musical award.
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(Programme from Picadilly's Golden Anniversary)
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"More than Betrayal or The Real Thing, Passion Play makes one feel the ugliness of deceit, the escalating anguish that can come from loss of trust... Has an intensity of feeling, a moral scope and a theatrical inventiveness that neither of the others matches."—The Times
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Nichols, Peter Richard was born on July 31, 1927 in Bristol, England. Son of Richard George and Violet Annie (Poole) Nichols.
Student, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, 1951-1953; student, Trent Park Teachers College, 1958-1960.
Professional actor, 1950-1955. Teacher, 1956-1959
Visiting playwright Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, 1976. Writer in residence, Nan Yang College, Singapore, 1994.
( A rich selection from the best of Nichols' work up to a...)
( This brilliantly written, deeply moving play about the ...)
(A rich selection from the best of Nichols' work up to and...)
(A rich selection from the best of Nichols' work up to and...)
( "More than Betrayal or The Real Thing, Passion Play mak...)
(Bri, a schoolteacher and his wife Sheila have a 10-year o...)
(Blue Murder is an absolute cracker, as ingenious as it is...)
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(Ted Forrest is a playwright with a problem - writer's blo...)
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Board Governors Greenwich Theatre, 1971-1975. Member drama panel Arts Council, 1973-1976. Fellow Royal Society Literature.
Married Thelma Reed, December 26, 1959. Children: Abigail (deceased), Louise, Daniel, Catherine.
