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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg: Peter Nichols

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Synopsis:

'This remarkable play is about a nightmare all women must have dreamed at some time, and most men: living with a child born so helplessly crippled as to be, as the father in it says so brutally, ""a human parsnip"". For all that, it has to be described as a comedy, one of the funniest and most touching I've ever seen.' Ronald Bryden, Observer (1967)

'Joe Egg is unlike any play I've ever seen; concerns about whether it's dated fade next to the claims that can now be made for it. It's in the collisions between pious and rogue thoughts that the play's energy lies. We don't know what to feel. Which is why, once seen, Joe Egg won't go away.' Robert Butler, Independent on Sunday (1993)

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Music, Stage & Screen

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Genres & Themes:

Comedy; Disability; Families