PETER NICHOLS   (1927 - )


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Plays by Peter Nichols

PETER NICHOLS
Beasts Of England
1st Produced:
Unproduced
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Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
anthology of readings
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Parts:
Male
1
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
planned at National Theatre, 1973, prevented by Orwell's widow
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PETER NICHOLS
Better Mousetrap, A
1st Produced:
Unproduced
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Company:
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1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
stage play, not so far offered
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PETER NICHOLS
Blue Murder
1st Produced:
Quakers Friars, Bristol
1995
Company:
Show of Strength
1st Published:
1996
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
11
Female
4
Parts Other:
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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
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PETER NICHOLS
Born In The Gardens
1st Produced:
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1980
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Genre:
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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.'
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PETER NICHOLS
Chez Nous
1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, London
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1974
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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.
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PETER NICHOLS
Day In The Death Of Joe Egg, A
1st Produced:
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1967
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Genre:
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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.
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PETER NICHOLS
Forget-Me-Not-Lane
1st Produced:
Greenwich Theatre, London
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1971
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Genre:
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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.
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PETER NICHOLS
Freeway, The
1st Produced:
National Theatre at the Old Vic, London
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1975
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Genre:
Futuristic Satire
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Parts:
Male
9
Female
5
Parts Other:
extras
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
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PETER NICHOLS
Harding's Luck
1st Produced:
Greenwich Theatre, London
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
novel by E Nisbit
Synopsis:
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PETER NICHOLS
Hearts And Flowers
1st Produced:
-
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Company:
-
1st Published:
1991
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Genre:
-
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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PETER NICHOLS
Hooded Terror, The
1st Produced:
Bristol
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
televised 1963
Synopsis:
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PETER NICHOLS
National Health, The, or Nurse Norton's Affair
1st Produced:
National Theatre at the Old Vic, London
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1970
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Genre:
Musical Comedy
Musical
Parts:
Male
12
Female
8
Parts Other:
extras
Synopsis:
Television may glamorise life in a British Hospital, but there is a very British way of dealing with the terminally ill.
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PETER NICHOLS
Neither Up Nor Down
1st Produced:
London
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays I", Methuen, London
1990
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Genre:
-
Sketch
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
married couple try to revive their flagging sexuality by following the illustrated instructions in a sex manual
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PETER NICHOLS
Passion Play
1st Produced:
Royal Shakespeare Company >>> at Aldwych Theatre, London
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
1981
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Genre:
Serious Comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
4
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
aka Passion
Synopsis:
Infidelities by the husband cause a couple to examine their lives through their alter egos
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PETER NICHOLS
Piece Of My Mind, A
1st Produced:
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
1987
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Author has dramatic writer's block which he attempts to resolve by writing an autobiographical play.
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PETER NICHOLS
Poppy
1st Produced:
Royal Shakespeare Company >>> at Barbican, London
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
1982
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Genre:
Musical Parody
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Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
extras, musicians
Notes:
music by Monty Norman
Synopsis:
Victorian hypocrisy to the Opium Wars exposed through pantomime and Gilbert and Sullivan Parodies.
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PETER NICHOLS
Privates On Parade
1st Produced:
Royal Shakespeare Company >>> at Aldwych Theatre, London
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London
1977
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Genre:
Play withsongs
Play with Music
Parts:
Male
8
Female
1
Parts Other:
extras
Synopsis:
British army ENSA group during Malay fighting in 1950 get up to peculiar adventure.
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PETER NICHOLS
So Long Life
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
Show of Strength
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London
2000
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
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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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