Product details
- ISBN 9781854596062
- Weight: 87g
- Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 29 Sep 2000
- Publisher: Nick Hern Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A comedy drama portraying a ghastly family gathering with great humour and unflinching honesty.
It is Alice's 85th birthday. An occasion for celebration. But like many family gatherings, it is also an occasion for parading long-held resentments as her children attempt to persuade her to relinquish her independence and move to a home. But Alice has other plans...
Peter Nichols's play So Long Life was first staged by Show of Strength at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol, in September 2000, in a production starring Stephanie Cole.
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.
