THEATRE WORK
Peter has contributed much to the development of the Community Theatre movement in Australia for which he received the Sidney Meyer Award for ‘Excellence in the Arts’ - 1985.
He has run three successful Theatre companies:
* The Dukes Playhouse - Lancaster UK, (five years);
* The Century Theatre - UK, (three years);
* The Playbox - Melbourne, (two years).
Peter has been Associate Director of the Mermaid Theatre, London (three years), and the Liverpool Playhouse, UK (three years); as well as Directing freelance in London, Paris, Melbourne and Tokyo. Directing well over two hundred plays. He now works internationally as a Theatre Director.
2004 Directed 'Twelfth Night' RADA, London
2003 Directed 'A Mid Summer Nights Dream' RADA, London
2003 Directed 'Alcestis' Monash University
2002 Directed 'Playboy of the Western World' RADA, London
2001 Directed Shakespeare Workshops, RADA, London
2000 Directed ‘Clandestine Marriage’ RADA, London
2000 Directed ‘MacBeth’ Yale University, New Haven, USA
1999 Directed two Chekov Plays - NLT Theatre Co, Tokyo
1999 Directed ‘The Bacchae’ - Nihon University, Japan
1998 Directed ‘The Country Wife’ - Lyric Hammersmith, London
1997 Script Editor of Westend Musical ‘Starstruck’
1997 RADA/Kings College, Shakespeare Workshops
1997-96 Productions at RADA, London; and Nihon University, Japan
1994-90 Freelance directing: ‘Murder In The Cathedral’, Liverpool
and Manchester Cathedrals; and "A Man For All Seasons’,
Liverpool Cathedral
1990-88 Associate Director, Liverpool Playhouse
1988 Directed and devised project for Melbourne Festival
1988-86 Freelance work including productions at the Royal Court,
London, Birmingham Rep and the Young Vic, London
1975-70 Founding Director for Duke’s Playhouse, Lancaster
1967 Artistic Director, Century Theatre, Lancaster
1965 Associate Director to Sir Bernard Miles,
Mermaid Theatre