Synopsis
Nichols Plays 1 - A Day in the Death of Joe Egg & The National Health & Hearts and Flowers & More
Published by Methuen
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 author's 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