"We are not short of good playwrights in Britain, but I know of none with Nichols' power to put modern Britain on the stage and send the spectators away feeling more like members of the human race" (Irving Wardle, The Times).

Among Nichols' most important plays are A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, The National Health and Forget-me-Not Lane.
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