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Passion Play Peter Nichols

Passion Play By Peter Nichols

Passion Play by Peter Nichols


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Summary

Peter Nichols's modern classic - a provocative comedy about sex, love and infidelity.

Passion Play Summary

Passion Play by Peter Nichols

Aprovocative comedy about sex, love and infidelity.

Comfortablymarried for 25 years, Eleanor's world isturned upside down when her husband begins an affair with their young friend Kate. As the lies mount up, the marriage is stripped bare,revealing illicitdesiresand hidden passions.

A potent mix of desire, intimacy and deception, this new edition of a modern classic and winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play was published alongside its return to the West End in 2013.

Peter Nichols's Passion Play was first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, in January 1981.

Passion Play Reviews

'Packed with black humour and wrenching emotion... [an] ingenious modern classic'

* Telegraph *

'Raw and rasping... remarkable'

* Whatsonstage.com *

'Steps with cruel wit and cool elegance through the carnage of infidelity... zings, stings and draws blood'

* The Arts Desk *

'Hard, brilliant and painful... adult in the only true sense of the word'

* Sunday Telegraph *

About Peter Nichols

Peter Nichols (1927-2019) was a British playwright whose best-known work includes A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Privates on Parade and Passion Play. Collectively his plays won four Evening Standard Awards, a Society of West End Theatres Award for Best Comedy and two Ivor Novello Best Musical Awards. He also wrote for television, film and radio.

Additional information

GOR005784376
9781848423190
1848423195
Passion Play by Peter Nichols
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Nick Hern Books
2013-05-08
112
Winner of Best Play, Evening Standard Awards 1981
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