A student of Toynbee Comprehensive school and Barton Peveril Sixth Form College, he Graduated from the University of Bristol having studied English Literature and Drama.Īfter graduation, he won a scholarship to study at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, before returning to London in 1991 and finally earning an Equity card. Poignant, funny, enchanting, devastating, Sweet Sorrow is a tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and the confusion of family life, a celebration of the reviving power of friendship and that brief, searing explosion of first love that can only be looked at directly after it has burned out.ĭavid Nicholls is a British author, screenwriter, and actor. The price of hope, it seems, is Shakespeare. And if the Company sounds like a cult, the truth is even more appalling. Then Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope.īut if Charlie wants to be with Fran, he must take on a challenge that could lose him the respect of his friends and require him to become a different person. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he thinks about the future at all, it is with a kind of dread. In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph.
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