John Nicholson
John Nicholson is a writer, director and performer. He is Co-Artistic Director of Peepolykus, with whom he has toured throughout the UK and worldwide since 1995.
As a writer, his work includes: King Arthur (Le Navet Bete, 2024); The Time Machine, co-written with Steven Canny (Original Theatre, 2023); Treasure Island (Le Navet Bete, 2019); Dracula: The Bloody Truth (Le Navet Bete, 2017); The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary, co-written with Javier Marzan for Peepolykus (Liverpool Everyman, 2016); and The Hound of the Baskervilles, co-written with Steven Canny for Peepolykus (West Yorkshire Playhouse, 2007).
He has also written extensively for BBC Radio, including Richard’s Rampage, and the four-part series Trespasser’s Guide to the Classics (2015).
As an actor, he has numerous television credits, particularly across the BBC and ITV.
The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary
Peepolykus bring their exhilarating combination of verbal slapstick, visual surprise and anarchic comedy to Gustave Flaubert's seminal nineteenth-century masterpiece Madame Bovary.
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By John Nicholson and Le Navet BeteA comic retelling of the story of Dracula, from John Nicholson and Exeter-based theatre company Le Navet Bete.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79The Time Machine: A Comedy
By Steven Canny and John NicholsonA fast-paced, wise-cracking, riotous play, loosely based on H.G. Wells's masterpiece, that zips from the nineteenth century to the end of the world, and (with any luck) back again.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79King Arthur
By Le Navet Bete and John NicholsonA hilarious retelling of the Arthurian legends from physical theatre masters Le Navet Bete.
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£10.99£8.79Pre-orderEbook£10.99£8.79Available soonThe Hound of the Baskervilles (stage version)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most celebrated Sherlock Holmes story gets a gloriously funny makeover.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59The Three Musketeers (stage version)
By John Nicholson and Le Navet BeteA riotously comic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel, originally performed by physical-comedy theatre company Le Navet Bete.
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A rip-roaring, swashbuckling, family-friendly retelling of a classic story.
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