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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is a 1967 play by the English playwright Peter Nichols, first staged at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland, before transferring to the Comedy Theatre in London's West End.
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is a 1972 British black comedy film directed by Peter Medak, and starring Alan Bates and Janet Suzman. It is based on the play of the same name by Peter Nichols.
Jun 4, 1972 · A Day in the Death of Joe Egg: Directed by Peter Medak. With Alan Bates, Janet Suzman, Peter Bowles, Sheila Gish. A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain-dead.
Married couple Bri (Alan Bates) and Sheila (Janet Suzman) have a daughter named Josephine (Elizabeth Robillard) who was born with severe cerebral palsy. Although the wheelchair-bound Jo is unable...
- Comedy, Drama
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg explores the day to day life of a normal family raising their only child, Joe, who is severely disabled. She has cerebral palsy and has been unable to communicate in any way since birth. She uses a wheelchair and has frequent, increasingly debilitating seizures.
Based on a Peter Nichols play, Peter Medak's 'A Day in the Death of Joe Egg' is an intelligent pitch black humored morality piece concerning a couple Bri & Sheila who are faced with the difficulties of raising their vegetative-state handicapped daughter Jo.
Oct 2, 2019 · A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1967) is based on his own family experience of bringing up his disabled daughter in the 1960s, and it has the reputation of being one of the most ground-breaking plays of its generation.
