A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Day in the Death of Joe Egg, A Alternative Title: Funny Turns
Author: Peter Nichols
First Performance: 1967, Glasgow
Published: 1967
Genre: Drama in 2 acts
Setting: Living room of Bri and Sheila's home, England, 1960s
Cast: 2m, 3f, 1 child (f)
Joe Egg is the affectionately mocking name given by her father Bri, a 33-year-old schoolteacher, to his 10-year-old daughter, who is totally paralysed from a damaged cerebral cortex. Despite obvious tensions in their marriage, Bri and his wife Sheila have learned to cope with living with a ‘human wegetable’, as Bri calls her in one of his ‘turns’ as a music-hall version of a German doctor. Indeed, despite the pain of the situation, their lives are made bearable by wit, humour, and fantasy games, and much of the dialogue is very...
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