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 Three Musketeers (stage version)
A 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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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39The 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£9.59Dracula: The Bloody Truth
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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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 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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