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James W Nichol

JAMES W NICHOL  (1940 - )

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Born in 1940 in Toronto, Ontario, playwright James W. Nichol has written for radio, film, television and theatre since 1964. He has been Vice-President of Playwrights Canada and was playwright-in-residence at the National Art Centre when Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons (1980) was staged in 1977.

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below is a list of James W Nichol's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Book of Solomon Spring, The         Child         Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - A Love Story         Every Dream         Gwendoline         House On Chestnut Street, The         Relative Strangers         Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons         Sonny         Stone Angel , The         Sweet Home Sweet         Tub

Book of Solomon Spring, The

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1st Produced:
Factory Theatre Lab, Toronto    1972

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Child

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Playwrights canada, 1979   -

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Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - A Love Story

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co-production with Canadian Stage Company, Theatre Calgary and Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company

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Every Dream

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Blyth Memorial Community Hall, Blyth, Ontario    1999

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Blyth Theatre Festival

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Gwendoline

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1978   -

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House On Chestnut Street, The

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Theatre Calgary    1972

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Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, in the anthology Isolation in Canadian Literature, 1972   -

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Relative Strangers

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

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Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons

Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons
Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons is James W. Nichols play concerning the disastrous mission that the Jesuits made to the Huron Indians in the seventeenth century. The play is about the conscience of a priest who refuses to accept salvation of his soul through the destruction of a proud people.

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Theatre London, Ontario    19 Nov 1974

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1977
Talonbooks (1992) >>>    978-0889221475

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Sonny

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

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Stone Angel , The

Stone Angel , The
Ninety year old Hagar is dying. She looks back on the men in her life - her father, husband and two sons

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from the novel by Margaret Laurence

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Playwrights Canada Press,    978-0887546310

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Adaptation

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Sweet Home Sweet

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Playwrights Studio, Toronto    1965

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Tub

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Stratford Festival    1969

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1972   -

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Drama One Act

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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