| 词条 | Peter Nichols |
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| name = Peter Richard Nichols {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|commas=on|CBE|FRSL}} | image = Peter Richard Nichols 2 (1).jpg | caption = Playwright | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1927|7|31|df=y}} | birth_place = Bristol, England | occupation= playwright, screenwriter, director, journalist }} Peter Richard Nichols[1] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|commas=on|CBE|FRSL}} (born 31 July 1927) is an English playwright, screenwriter, director and journalist. Life and careerBorn in Bristol, England, he was educated at Bristol Grammar School, and served his compulsory National Service as a clerk in Calcutta and later in the Combined Services Entertainment Unit in Singapore[2] where he entertained the troops alongside John Schlesinger, Stanley Baxter, and Kenneth Williams,[3] before going on to study acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He later claimed to have studied acting because there were no dedicated courses for playwrights.[2] While he was working as a teacher he began to write television plays which achieved notice. His first play for the stage was The Hooded Terror, part of a season of new plays at the Little Theatre in Bristol. He later wrote A Day in the Death of Joe Egg for the stage.[3] A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is a one-set drama in music hall style. The National Health is a fantasy farce, also interrupted by vaudeville. Privates on Parade is a musical comedy, partly inspired by Nichols's own experiences in the Combined Services Entertainments Unit.[3] Poppy takes the form of a Christmas pantomime. Despite the comic style, Nichols' plays deal with the most serious of themes. In A Day in the Death of Joe Egg the burden of raising a hopelessly handicapped child shatters a couple's marriage. The patients of The National Health suffer and die, as do the singing soldiers of Privates on Parade. In Poppy, a pantomime take on the Chinese opium wars, Dick Whittington's girlfriend becomes a drug addict. Passion Play (known as "Passion" in the United States), focuses on adultery and betrayal. In Blue Murder, a comic satire about play censorship, a constable investigates a death. Nichols is often considered an especially autobiographical playwright, and has chronicled much of the background to his plays in his published autobiography and diaries. Joe Egg is based on Nichols' own experiences of raising a handicapped child, The National Health draws on a hospital stay of his own, while Privates on Parade draws on his own military experiences. Nichols was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to drama.[4] PlaysHis plays include:
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'Whatever interest my life may have had must have been exhausted. Yet there were better reasons than vanity – I needed the advance the publishers offered, which was far more generous than any given to me for a play; the theatre itself, once so alluring, now seemed past its best, the wrinkles showing, the kisses dry and dutiful; it would be a bitter pleasure to describe my disenchantment and blame the people who'd done me down; and if I didn't write a book about me, it was clear no one else would."` Peter Nichols' preface, page xi.
"Did you know that Maggie Smith once accused Laurence Olivier of having "a tin ear and two left feet"? That's one of many enjoyably acerbic snippets in Peter Nichols' Diaries 1969–77, a period that stretches from the composition of his The National Health to the conception of his masterpiece, Passion Play....Nichols tends to be touchy, crusty, disappointed with himself....yet wonderfully observant, honest and likeable." Benedict Nightingale The Times 13 December 2000. Sources
References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/671144/NY18_Queens_List_-_Final_.pdf|format=PDF|title=New Year's Honours 2018|work=Gov.uk|publisher=Government Digital Service|date=29 December 2017|accessdate=29 December 2017|page=18}} 2. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://sounds.bl.uk/View.aspx?item=024M-1CDR0028659X-0100V0.xml|title=Theatre Archive Project|publisher=British Library|accessdate=4 June 2011}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite book |last= Stevens|first= Christopher|title= Born Brilliant: The Life Of Kenneth Williams|publisher= John Murray|year= 2010|isbn = 1-84854-195-3|page=351}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42503068|title=In pictures: Entertainment stars recognised in New Year Honours|author=Entertainment & Arts team|work=BBC News|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|date=29 December 2017|accessdate=23 March 2017}} External links
9 : 1927 births|Living people|People educated at Bristol Grammar School|Alumni of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School|People from Bristol|English dramatists and playwrights|Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature|English male dramatists and playwrights|Commanders of the Order of the British Empire |
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