| Nichols Plays: 1: Day in the Death of Joe Egg;the National Health; Hearts and Flowers; The Freeway; Forget-Me-Not Lane Revised Edition Contributor(s): Nichols, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0413648702 ISBN-13: 9780413648709 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama |
| Dewey: 822.914 |
| Series: Contemporary Dramatists |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.08" W x 8.26" (1.29 lbs) 528 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |