A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Summary & Study Guide
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In Peter Nichols' play entitled A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Bri and Sheila spend their married life caring for their severely physically and mentally disabled daughter, Joe. Because they perform the same tasks daily to care for her, their life is like a play, a dark comedy they perform for the acknowledged audience with candor and humor. When Bri decides he cannot play the role of Joe's father for another night, he attempts to end the play by ending his daughter's life.
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Taking the anxieties of middle-class, suburban England as his subject, Peter Nichols has fashioned a series of very popular plays which at their best comment on reality by distorting it through comic ...
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Peter Nichols is one of many recent dramatists for whose work the developing medium of television was a major catalyst. His television career started in 1959 with A Walk on the Grass and Promenade. H...
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Peter (Richard) Nichols