Peter Nichols (2) (1927–2019)
Autore di A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
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A Bristol-born former actor and schoolteacher, Peter Nichols was born on July 31, 1927. He got his start writing some 14 plays for television and has continued to write for that medium even since attaining success in the West End. A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, his first stage play, was produced in mostra altro England in 1967 and on Broadway a year later. Joe Egg (as a squeamish American management insisted it be retitled) concerns a couple whose marriage is slowly being destroyed by their attempt to raise a hopelessly spastic daughter (Josephine, alias Joe Egg, their "living parsnip"). They survive in their situation as long as they do only by ceaselessly joking about it. This comic distancing, as much as its autobiographical revelation, was to be the common characteristic of Nichols's later plays. Forget-Me-Not-Lane (1971), distinctly personal in its middle-aged re-examination of a World War II childhood, has characters stepping back and forth through time and in and out of the dramatic situation. In Passion Play (1981), Nichols's characters even break away from themselves, each partner in a bickering couple splitting into mutually critical components. The National Health (1969), produced to general acclaim at the National Theatre, achieves its distancing through the alternation of realistic scenes of suffering and dying in a hospital ward with episodes of an outrageous medical soap opera, Nurse Norton's Affair, shown on a simulated television screen. And in the ironic musical episodes of Privates on Parade (1977), the story of an army entertainment troupe in the 1950s, Nichols entered the area of alienating theatricalism explored by John Osborne's The Entertainer (1957) and Joan Littlewood's Oh, What a Lovely War. Privates, a Royal Shakespeare Company hit of 1977, has been made into a film, as have Joe Egg and The National Health. (Nichols also wrote the screenplay for the 1966 film satire Georgy Girl.) (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Peter Nichols
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The Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues: More Than 150 Monologues from More Than 70 Playwrights (1987) — Collaboratore — 178 copie
Monologues Women: 50 Speeches from the Contemporary Theatre (v. 1) (1976) — Collaboratore — 30 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Nichols, Peter Richard
- Data di nascita
- 1927-07-31
- Data di morte
- 2019-09-07
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Bristol, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Calcutta, India
Singapore - Istruzione
- Bristol Grammar School
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School - Attività lavorative
- playwright
author
screenwriter - Organizzazioni
- Royal Shakespeare Company
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Utenti
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Georgy Girl di Silvio Narizzano
2021 movie #94. 1966. Georgie (Redgrave) is a frumpy, old-fashioned girl in Mod London. Envious of her beautiful roommate (Rampling) and fighting off the advances of her father's boss (Mason), she makes her own independent way. Redgrave was nominated for Best Actress Oscar.
Also published under the title "Passion", this is a play about middle-aged James and Eleanor. Married twenty-five years, they are happily comfortable with each other until their friend dies and his much younger mistress sets her sights on James, who isn't attracted to the woman, yet can't resist the offer.
An interesting take on infidelity, as James' conscience splits off and becomes another character, while the dead friend's wife becomes the voice of foreboding for Eleanor.
An interesting take on infidelity, as James' conscience splits off and becomes another character, while the dead friend's wife becomes the voice of foreboding for Eleanor.
A brilliant play on the difficulties of a marriage when the child is born disabled, in this case, severely disabled. The parents joke and role-play to deal with the pain, but the pain has become the defining feature of their marriage. The crisis comes when the wife brings home two friends from her rehearsal at the local theatre company, and the husband's mother drops by unannounced. The father has dreams of euthanasia, which horrify most of those around him. The ending of the play is poignant, but does leave some room for the theatre-goer to build their own ending, that third act that takes place after you leave the theatre.… (altro)
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- Opere
- 21
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 388
- Popolarità
- #62,338
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 9
- ISBN
- 148
- Lingue
- 6