A rich selection from the best of Nichols work up to and including his award-winning Privates on ParadeA Day in the Death of Joe Egg is based on the authors 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 authors 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.
2014-04-21 2014-04-21File Name: B00JQF6KOK
Review
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Treat yourself to this gemBy HLBWonderfully funny! I found myself laughing out loud many times. Highly recommended!