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PETER LATHAN |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Peter Lathan's first experience of theatre was at the age of twelve when he played Marion in Sean O'Casey's Cock-a-Doodle Dandy, a school production in an all-boys school. In the ensuing 55 years he has been deeply involved in all aspects of theatre. He directed his first production (a Chekhov one-acter, The Anniversary) while at university and, as a playwright, his first play to be performed professionally (The Passion, a version of the medieval Mystery Plays) was produced in 1973. He has directed more than 65 productions with school and youth groups and professional companies. For the last ten years most of his work has been with KG Productions, a company he founded in 1999. Work with KG has included Theatre in Education, corporate productions, new writing (the company commissioned, produced and toured novelist Chaz Brenchley's first play A Cold Coming) and touring pantos. In 2009 he was invited by the Customs House, South Shields, to direct an open-air, site-specific version of The Tempest, the first in an annual summer Shakespeare in the Park event using an ensemble of some of the region's leading professional actors. In 2010 he will be directing Romeo and Juliet. He has written 24 plays, including a full-length musical, a number of pantos, touring TIE shows and corporate work for a wide variety of clients. He was commissioned to write and direct The South Tyneside Story for the Millennium Dome. His plays have been produced throughout the UK, and in the US, Germany and India. Other writing includes It's Behind You: The Story of Panto (New Holland Publishers 2003). between 1968 and 1980 he was a regular contributor to The Stage, Cabaret and Variety Revue and Musicians Only and had a two-year spell as theatre correspondent for BBC Radio Newcastle. He has taught drama in schools and with youth theatres, and has also done drama work with recovering addicts, adults with severe learning disabilities and ran a two year drama course for adults under the auspices of a local Adult and Community Learning department. He has served on arts-related council committees, did PR, front of house management and lighting design for the St David's Arts Festival as well as appearances there as an actor and director, has done a range of Drama workshops in primary and secondary schools and consultancy work, specifying equipment and design for school theatres and drama studios. From 1997 to 2001 he was employed by about.com (New York) to run a web site on British Theatre and set up the British Theatre Guide in 2001.
Plays by Peter Lathan
Arctic Convoy: a Saga of the Sea | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jazz Cafe, Pink Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne | 13 Nov 2011 | ||||
Company: | Pink Lane Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #134304 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Written by Kenneth Greenwell (1942), adapted for stage by Jessica Johnson with Robbie Lee Hurst, dramaturgy by Peter Lathan, and with additional material devised by Jessica Johnson and original music by Grace Ellen | |||||
Synopsis: | A poetic saga of the sea | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mysteries, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | NE churches, England | 1970's | ||||
Company: | Wearabout Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54815 | |||
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Genre: | epic drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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To Wit: To Woo | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jazz Cafe, Pink Lane, Newcastle | 16 Sep 2011 | ||||
Company: | Newcastle Fringe | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #128917 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
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Synopsis: | a compilation of love scenes from a variety of Shakespeare plays | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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