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"The Cure is Removal of Guilt": Faith, Fidelity and Fertility in the Plays of Peter Nichols

In 1969, two years after the successful London production of his first stage play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Peter Nichols and his wife, Thelma, visited their friend artist Francis Hewlett in Cornwall. Hewlett was suffering from the intestinal syndrome called Crohn's Disease. Conventional medical treatment having failed, Hewlett had turned to John Layard, by then nearly eighty, described by Nichols as "an old witch-doctor," but in fact a published anthropologist and psychologist and sometime friend of W.H. Auden, who described him in The Orators: