A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
(Paperback, Main)
Publishing Details
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
By (Author) Peter Nichols
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st July 2005
3rd September 2001
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
822.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
96
Width 127mm, Height 198mm, Spine 8mm
115g
Description
This play is about the nightmare all parents must have dreamed of at some time, that of living with a child born so hopelessly crippled as to be, as the father says, 'a human parsnip'.
'Joe Egg is unlike any play I've seen; concerns about whether it's dated fade next to the claims that can now be made for it. It's in the collisions between pious and rogue thoughts that the play's energy lies. We don't know what to feel. Which is why, once seen, Joe Egg won't go away.' - Independent on Sunday (1993)
Author Bio
After National Service in India, Malaya and Hong Kong, Peter Nichols acted in repertory and TV before becoming a teacher. He has written some twenty original plays and adaptations for TV, six feature films and the following stage plays: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, The National Health, Forget-me-not Lane, The Freeway, Chez Nous, Privates on Parade, Born in the Gardens, Passion Play, Poppy, Blue Murderand A Piece of Mind. He has won five Evening Standard Awards, two Best Musical Awards and a Society of West End Theatre Award for Best Comedy.
