Cet auteur explore des questions éthiques complexes et des commentaires sociaux à travers ses œuvres. Ses récits présentent souvent des mondes dystopiques, examinant les limites de la nature humaine face à l'adversité. Grâce à un style distinctif et des thèmes réfléchis, il pousse les lecteurs à considérer les implications du progrès humain et notre avenir collectif.
"A Voyage for Madmen" is a gripping oceanic adventure chronicling the 1968 race where nine sailors attempted to circumnavigate the globe nonstop. Only one would succeed, while others faced madness, failure, and death. This meticulously researched tale explores human endurance against the sea's brutal challenges.
New York Times best-selling author Peter Nichols chronicles his and his wife's voyage aboard a wooden sailboat from the Caribbean to England - where his marriage foundered - and his trip back alone, which also became a journey of self-discovery.
Includes, among others, the plays, "The Freeway", "Privates on Parade" and "Passion Play". Each play is introduced by the author with extracts from his diary. This edition is being published alongside "Nichols Plays: One".
The story of a visionary but now forgotten English naval officer and the events without which the name Charles Darwin would be unknown to us today. Captain Robert FitzRoy’s first voyage aboard the HMS Beagle had concluded with the kidnapping of four “savages” from Tierra del Fuego. But when his plan to bring them back to England to civilize them as Christian gentlefolk backfired, the second and most famous voyage of the Beagle was born. In naval terms, this second voyage—with twenty-two-year-old Charles Darwin in tow—was a stunning scientific success. But FitzRoy, a fanatical Christian was horrified by the heretical theories Darwin began to develop. As these ideas came to influence the most profound levels of religious and scientific thinking in the nineteenth century, FitzRoy’s knowledge that he had provided Darwin the vehicle for his sacrilegious ideas propelled him irrevocably toward suicide. Praise for Evolution’s Captain “A powerful story played out against a beguiling landscape. . . . Nichols has a finely tuned sense of history.” —New York Times Book Review “A fascinating account. . . . A finely researched, engaging book.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution “It’ll prove hard not to share [Nichols’s] fascination with how FitzRoy’s naval career inadvertently set off a scientific controversy still flaring to this day.” —Publishers Weekly
A provocative comedy exploring sex, love, and infidelity, this new edition of a modern classic, winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play, coincides with its highly anticipated return to the West End.
Exploring themes of nostalgia and familial relationships, this bittersweet play delves into the complexities of fatherhood and the memories that shape our lives. Set against the backdrop of a youth filled with challenges, it reflects on the contrasting emotions of bitterness and sweetness associated with the past. Originally performed in 1971 at the Greenwich Theatre in London, the cast features four women and five men, bringing to life the poignant interactions that define family dynamics.
Music hall routines with clever and ribald lyrics highlight this British hit about an army entertainment unit in post World War II Malaya.1 woman, 10 men
This is the story of the man without whom the name Charles Darwin might be unknown to us today. That man was Captain Robert FitzRoy, who invited the 22-year-old Darwin to be his companion on board the Beagle . This is the remarkable story of how a misguided decision by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle , precipitated his employment of a young naturalist named Charles Darwin, and how the clash between FitzRoy’s fundamentalist views and Darwin’s discoveries led to FitzRoy’s descent into the abyss. One of the great ironies of history is that the famous journey—wherein Charles Darwin consolidated the earth-rattling ‘origin of the species’ discoveries—was conceived by another man: Robert FitzRoy. It was FitzRoy who chose Darwin for the journey—not because of Darwin’s scientific expertise, but because he seemed a suitable companion to help FitzRoy fight back the mental illness that had plagued his family for generations. Darwin did not give FitzRoy solace; indeed, the clash between the two men’s opposing views, together with the ramifications of Darwin’s revelations, provided FitzRoy with the final unendurable torment that forced him to end his own life.
'This remarkable play is about a nightmare all women must have dreamed at some time, and most men...'Ronald Bryden, Observer (1967)'Joe Egg is unlike any play I've 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)
Two families, three generations, one Mediterranean island - and an unexplained feud to which only the matriarch has the key.