A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Nichols
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Plot: Dark comedy
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: A southwestern suburb of London
- Principal Characters: Bri, Sheila, Joe, Freddie, Pam, Grace
- Genres: Drama, Comedy, Dark comedy
- Subjects: Values, 1960’s, Parents and children, Education or educators, Marriage, Hope, London, Ethics, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Birth defects
- Locales: London, England
The Play
Bri, an amateur painter and a discontented and unsuccessful teacher in a comprehensive school, and his wife Sheila, a homemaker and part-time amateur actor, live in the southwestern suburbs of London. They are the parents of one child, a seriously physically impaired and mentally disabled girl, Josephine, or Joe Egg, now ten years old. In a brief opening scene, before the lights come up on the set, Bri, an exasperated schoolteacher, hectors his pupils for their unruly behavior. Then he leaves, and the lights reveal the setting for the rest of the play, the living room...
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