Email:  peterbeck@live.co.uk         Mobile:  07876 648911

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Recent Directing Work

'The Threepenny Opera' by Bertolt Brecht

Theatre Paradisum  www.theatreparadisum.com

                 

'Fans of Brecht's theatrical ideas, novices to the art of 'making strange' (Verfremdungseffekt) and those who enjoy a classic parody with music should catch The Threepenny Opera...first class' (Eastern Daily Press)

'This production invites audience participation by holding a mirror up to current events thereby breaking down the barrier between passive spectatorship and active involvement...the 'nakedness' with which the characters are portrayed allows for Brecht's ideas about Verfremdung to come to their full fore...this production is highly successful'  (Nanette Nielsen, University of East Anglia, Lecturer and Scholar of 1920's German opera and music theatre)

 

'The Double Inconstancy' by Pierre Marivaux       

UEA MA Theatre Programme

     

 

'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' by Christopher Hampton       

Minotaur Theatre Company  - Winner of 'Best Director' Julian Award 2007

     

 

'Drink With Me' a new devised work in collaboration with Beverley Bishop

Funded by Playwrights East and Arts Council England

 

'Murders in the Rue Morgue' a new devised work from Edgar Allen Poe's classic tale.      

Cheetahfeet Theatre Company

     

 

'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

Maddermarket Theatre - collaboration with artist Sarah Horton

         

 

'The Philadelphia Story' by Philip Barry

Maddermarket Theatre

   

'A thoughtful, well-presented production...a strong cast who had very carefully worked up their characters' (Evening News)

 

'Metamorphosis' by Steven Berkoff

Maddermarket Theatre - Touring

       

 

'The Elephant Man' by Bernard Pomerance

Maddermarket Theatre - collaboration with artist Helen Merrin

       

'Powerful retelling...a performance of almost towering proportions' (East Anglian Daily Times)

'Powerful presentation' (Evening News)

 

 

'Thumping' a new work by Tim Ashwell

Platform One Theatre Company Performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 1999

'Must see' (Three Weeks)

'Genuinely moving' (Scotsman)

 

 

'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Steven Berkoff

Maddermarket Theatre

   

'Quality drama...very powerful stuff...superb direction' (Evening News)