A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is a play by Peter Nichols (1927-2019)[1]

The original text

Written in 1967, the play centres on a British couple who are struggling to save their marriage whilst trying to raise their only child, a small girl with cerebral palsy.

First staged at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland, before transferring to London's West End theatres in 1968.

Performance history in South Africa

1972: Directed by Robert Davies at the Little Theatre, Cape Town, for the UCT Dramatic Society starring Colin Duell, Sue Phillips.

1973: Directed by Roy Sargeant, presented by the Rhodes University Drama Department with Henry Goodman, Lois Butlin, Mary Ashby, Tony Peake, Irene Peake and Beth Dickerson in the cast.

1980: Performed by The Company at the Market Theatre in May, directed by Roy Sargeant with a cast that included Danny Keogh, Sandy Dacombe, Bess Finney, Lesley Nott and Tiffany Kelly (as "Joe"). Photographs by Ruphin Coudyzer (who also mentions Nathalie Codd and Ron Smerczak as cast members in his list).

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Day_in_the_Death_of_Joe_Egg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Nichols_(playwright)

Theatre programme (Rhodes 1973) held by NELM: [Collection: Rhodes University. Drama Department]: 2011. 370. 2. 2.

Ruphin Coudyzer. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of Market Theatre productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)

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