Talk:Peter Nichols (playwright)

Overboard

I think you may have gone a little overboard on adding links. DJ Clayworth 03:18, 19 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hooded Terror

According to what I've seen The Hooded Terror was televised before it was produced as a play. I'm unclear about whether he wrote it as a play but adapted for television, or wrote it for television and adapted it for the stage. DJ Clayworth 16:38, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Lingua Franca

Did he not also write a piece called Lingua Franca; if so should this not be mentioned on the main page--TimothyJacobson (talk) 15:10, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Contribution that needs some work

The following is a version of the page that has lots of information, but has problem with both formatting and citations. I've moved it here so we can grab and improve the good stuff! --John (User:Jwy/talk) 16:17, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Peter Nichols FRSL (born 31 July 1927) is an English writer of stage plays, film and television. He abandoned his first profession of acting, to become a playwright.

Life and career

Born in Bristol in 1927 and educated there at The Grammar School and Old Vic Theatre School. After National Service in India, Malaya and Hong Kong, an actor in repertory and television for five years, then a teacher in London schools. His many original scripts and adaptations have appeared on television, film and radio. He has won four Evening Standard Best Play Awards, a SWET (now Olivier) award for Best Comedy and two Ivor Novello Best Musical Awards. The 1985 Broadway revival of Joe Egg got two Tonies. Details of first and later productions are in his Plays One and Plays Two, published by Methuen.

Theatre: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, 1967 (Glasgow Citizens’) The National Health 1968 (The National Theatre at the Old Vic) Forget-me-not Lane, 1971 (Greenwich and Apollo) The Freeway (1974, The NT at the Old Vic) Chez Nous, (1974, Globe Theatre, Shaftesbury Ave.) Privates on Parade (1977 RSC at The Aldwych, then Piccadilly) Born in the Gardens (1979 Bristol Old Vic and Globe) Passion Play (RSC at Aldwych) Poppy (1982 RSC at The Barbican, then Adelphi) A Piece of my Mind (1987, Southampton and Apollo). Blue Murder (1995, Show of Strength @ Quakers Friars). So Long Life (2000) (Show of Strength). Lingua Franca (2010, Finborough Theatre).

These have won four Evening Standard Best Play Awards, a SWET (now Olivier) award for Best Comedy and two Ivor Novello Best Musical Awards. The 1985 Broadway revival of Joe Egg got two Tonies. Details of first and later productions are in his Plays One and Plays Two, published by Methuen.

Produced television plays and films: Walk on the Grass (BBC) 1959 Promenade (Granada) 1960 (pub: Six Granada Plays, Faber) Ben Spray (Granada) 1961 (pub: New Granada Plays, Faber) 1961 The Reception (Granada) 1961 The Big Boys (BBC) 1961 Continuity Man (BBC) 1962 Ben Again (Granada) 1962 The Heart of the Country ((ATV) 1964 The Hooded Terror (ATV) 1964 (adapted for the stage at the Bristol Old Vic Co) The Brick Umbrella (ATV) 1964 When the Wind Blos (ATV) 1965 The Gorge (BBC) (pub: The Television Dramatist, Elek) 1965 Daddy Kiss It Better (Yorks tv) 1968 Hearts and Flowers (BBC)(pub in Plays One, Methuen) 1970 The Common (BBC) 1975 Greeks Bearing Gifts (Inspector Morse series) 1980 ‘Peter Nichols grew from being a servant of television into being its master and his unique skill in this medium, which reached its major peak with Hearts and Flowers, has developed that medium beyond what it was before he took to writing for it and learning from it.’ (Brian Miller, British Television Drama, pub; Cambridge University Press 1981)

Feature films: Catch Us If You Can (dir: John Boorman) 1965 Georgy Girl (co-author) dir; Silvio Narizzano) 1966 A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (dir: Peter Medak) 1970 The National Health (dir: Jack Gold) 1973 Privates on Parade (dir: Michael Blakemore) 1982

Radio: Adaptations of some stage plays, e.g. ‘The Freeway’, BBC R4. Something in the Air, talk for BBC R3, developed into Jam Yesterday, a play with songs (BBC World Service). Several talks on the R3 series Turns of the Century, examining the work of entertainers like Noel Coward and Kenneth Williams.

Books: Feeling You’re Behind, a memoir. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1984 ISBN 0 297 78392 0; Penguin 1985.ISBN 0-14-007633-6 ) Diary 1969-1977, a selection, ISBN 1 85459 474 5 (Nick Hern 2000).

Fiction: Love Fifteen, a novel, (Troubador 2014) ISBN 978 1783063 123 (It is a wonderful novel .. an epic of war and empire and slavery and utopia, all of it bombarded with wit. John Boorman. Funny, touching and wonderfully redolent of those times. How could you remember it all? Dame Eileen Atkins. It feels like entry into another utterly vanished world and yet which feels so familiar and vivid. Tessa Hadley.)

Journalism: Includes: The Rime of the Ancient Dramatist (Independent 1993) Series: The View from the Rectory (The Times, 1980s) Many reviews and features.

Professional postings: Playwright in Residence, Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, Minn, US. Writer in Residence, Nanyang College, Singapore University.

As stage director: Revivals of ‘Joe Egg’ and ‘Forget-me-not Lane’ (both Greenwich). Co-directed ‘The National Health’, Minneapolis Premières of ‘Born in the Gardens’, Bristol Old Vic; ‘A Piece of My Mind’, Southampton Nuffield Theatre ‘Blue Murder’ and ‘Nicholodeon’ (both Tobacco Factory, Bristol). Peter Nichols lives in Oxford with his wife of over fifty years and continues to write plays, novels and a diary which he has written for 70 years. He has three surviving children and seven grandchildren.

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