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PETER NICHOLS (1927 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd |
Playwright Peter Nichols was born in Bristol in 1927, and is a multiple award-winning author of some of the most enduring British plays of the last four decades. With its controversial and subversive range of themes and styles, his work continues to be revived on both sides of the Atlantic. His many plays include A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (recently seen in the West End and on Broadway), Passion Play (originally produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and recently seen at the Donmar Warehouse, directed by Michael Grandage), Privates on Parade (also originally produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and recently revived at the Donmar Warehouse with James McAvoy as Steven Flowers), The Freeway, The National Health (National Theatre), Forget-Me-Not-Lane (Greenwich Theatre), Chez Nous (Gielgud Theatre), Born in the Gardens (Bristol Old Vic), Blue Murder (later Fig-Leaves) (Show of Strength Theatre Company, Bristol), So Long Life (The Tobacco Factory, Bristol) and A Piece of My Mind (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton). His awards include four Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier Award for Best Comedy and two Ivor Novello Awards for Best Musical. He has also written screenplays of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, The National Health and Privates on Parade. His books include Feeling You're Behind, a memoir, published by Weidenfeld in 1984 and Peter Nichols: Diaries 1969-1977, published by Nick Hern Books in 2000. His Plays One and Two are published by Methuen.
Plays by Peter Nichols
Beasts Of England | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25685 | |||
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Genre: | anthology of readings | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | planned at National Theatre, 1973, prevented by Orwell's widow | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Better Mousetrap, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25686 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | stage play, not so far offered | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Blue Murder | ||
| 1st Produced: | Quakers Friars, Bristol | 1995 | ||||
Company: | Show of Strength | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25687 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Foreign Bodies & A Game of Soldiers | |||||
Synopsis: | Subtitled 'a play or two', Blue Murder opens with Foreign Bodies, where Swinging London meets bourgeois Shrewsbury in 1963 and the drinks are laced with cyanide. The second half, A Game of Soldiers, is a Whitehall farce taking place in St James's Palace. A dramatist has brought his completed play to be censored but the Lord Chamberlain's Men have a few shameful secrets of their own . . . Period 1963 and 1967 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Born In The Gardens | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1980 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25688 | |||
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Genre: | Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Maud, a decidedly eccentric woman, lives in a dilapidated mock-Tudor Victorian house with her son Mo. The other children, Hedley, an ineffectual Labour MP, and Queenie, an expatriate in America, arrive and try to persuade Maud to go to a modem 'duplex' in London, and Mo to join Queenie in California, but both prefer to remain as they are. Not all of us, Mo says, 'want freedom. Captivity has its points as well.' | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Chez Nous | ||
| 1st Produced: | Globe Theatre, London | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25689 | |||
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Genre: | Domestic Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Incest in the French countryside as two couples find their relationships altered. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Day In The Death Of Joe Egg, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1967 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1967 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25690 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Parents of a spastic daughter attempt to come to terms with the situation through the humour of despair. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Forget-Me-Not-Lane | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich Theatre, London | 1971 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25691 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Flashbacks to World War II as man attempts analysis of the failure of his marriage. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Freeway, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre at the Old Vic, London | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25692 | |||
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Genre: | Futuristic Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
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Synopsis: | Family are trapped in mobile home in gigantic traffic jam on English roads, expressions of moral and political viewpoints fail to alleviate the situation.44 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Harding's Luck | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich Theatre, London | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25693 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | novel by E Nisbit | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hearts And Flowers | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76201 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hooded Terror, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bristol | 1964 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25694 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | televised 1963 | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lingua Franca | ||
| 1st Produced: | Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED >>> | 13 Jul 2010 | ||||
Company: | Cherub Company London in association with Neil McPherson | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978057311228-7 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #116337 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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| We must learn to be Europeans. Forgive and forget is our only hope' Lingua Franca follows innocent abroad, Steven Flowers, as he travels from National Service in South-East Asia to 1950's Florence. He soon finds himself working for a chaotically-run language school, together with a cosmopolitan muddle of seven foreign misfits killing their post-war nihilism in the cafes of Florence, the cradle of Renaissance high culture. Based around a leading character in Peter Nichols' acclaimed work Privates on Parade, and inspired by his own experiences, Lingua Franca is a fast-paced, sexually-charged story, and both a damning indictment and a celebration of sexual freedom. Playing with notions of xenophobia and deep-seated cultural stereotypes, nationalist foibles and prejudices clash and sparkle to high comic effect as Steven tries to make sense of his own life and a Europe at peace after so many years of war. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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National Health, The, or Nurse Norton's Affair | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre at the Old Vic, London | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571091905 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25695 | |||
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Genre: | Musical Comedy Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
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| Television may glamorise life in a British Hospital, but there is a very British way of dealing with the terminally ill. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Neither Up Nor Down | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1972 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays I", Methuen, London, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25696 | |||
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Genre: | Sketch | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | married couple try to revive their flagging sexuality by following the illustrated instructions in a sex manual | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Passion Play | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Shakespeare Company >>> at Aldwych Theatre, London | 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25697 | |||
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Genre: | Serious Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | aka Passion | |||||
| Infidelities by the husband cause a couple to examine their lives through their alter egos | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume I Issues 01/02 Page 5 | |||||
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Piece Of My Mind, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25698 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Author has dramatic writer's block which he attempts to resolve by writing an autobiographical play. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Poppy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Shakespeare Company >>> at Barbican, London | 25 Sep 1982 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | Original cast recording Warner (25-00001) 1982 | doollee no | #25699 | |||
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Genre: | Musical Parody | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | extras, musicians | |||||
Notes: | music by Monty Norman | |||||
| Victorian hypocrisy to the Opium Wars exposed through pantomime and Gilbert and Sullivan Parodies. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Privates On Parade | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Shakespeare Company >>> at Aldwych Theatre, London | 1977 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1977 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571111428 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25700 | |||
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Genre: | Play withsongs Play with Music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
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| British army ENSA group during Malay fighting in 1950 get up to peculiar adventure. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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So Long Life | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | Show of Strength | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25701 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Bristol 1995. It is Alice's 85th birthday. An occasion for celebration. But like many family gatherings, it is also an occasion for parading long-held resentments as her children attempt to persuade her to relinquish her independence and move to a home. But Alice has other plans . . . | |||||
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