Peter Nichols

Jamie Andrews (The British Library)
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Although active in television drama from the late 1950s, it was not until 1967, and the staging of his play 

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

, that Peter Nichols came to prominence in the theatre. Throughout the 1970s, a steady succession of Nichols’s plays were staged in both the commercial and subsidized theatres in Britain, many of which subsequently transferred to Broadway and were adapted for the cinema. If Nichols lost his zeal for playwriting in the mid 1980s, the announcement of his retirement from the theatre would prove premature, and recent years saw new works and acclaimed revivals performed in New York and London; indeed when Peter passed away on 7 September 2019, a major new production of

… Joe Egg

was just about to open at London’s Trafalgar Theatre.

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Citation: Andrews, Jamie. "Peter Nichols". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 31 October 2005; last revised 05 July 2021. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3336, accessed 13 October 2024.]

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