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PETER TERSON  (1932 - )

Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  


Peter Terson (born 16 February 1932, Newcastle-upon-Tyne) is a British playwright whose plays have been produced for stage, television and radio. His early work in the 1960s focused on growing up in the dead-end working-class culture of industrial England. He was born as Peter Patterson. From 1956 - 1958 Peter was trained at Redland Teacher Training College in Bristol, a college of Bristol University. He taught for 10 years before writing professionally. He taught at what was then Blackminster County Secondary School, near Littleton, Worcestershire. He taught history and P.E. Peter left Blackminster in the mid-1960s. Plays such as Zigger Zagger, about football hooligans and their pursuit of drink, sex, and trouble, and The Apprentices, showing the cruelties between young men learning industrial trades, presented a dismal view of life with few means of escape. In Zigger Zagger an apprenticeship was the escape from the hooligan lifestyle. These two plays were also taken up by local theatre groups and even appeared in school productions, with local adaptations by the producers for accent, dialect, soccer teams and related slang.[citation needed] Hans Neuenfels' Heidelberg-production of Zikke Zakke has been invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen in 1969. Later works for television took a more optimistic view, especially a series of plays centering on a trio of Yorkshiremen, led by Art (Brian Glover), and their humorous misadventures. At about the same time he wrote Pinvin Careless and his Lines of Force, a parable about a man at the end of his life pursuing his obsession with ley lines and related pseudo-phenomena, while remembering his upbringing under a stern father in a cricket-obsessed village culture. Terson treated the situation of men dealing with life in the modern de-industrialized North in the play Strippers which ran in London's West End theatres. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Terson

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1861 Whitby Lifeboat Disaster, The         Adventures of Gervase Beckett, The; or, The Man Who Changed Places         Aesop's Fables         Affair at Bennett's Hill, The, (Worcs)         All Honour Mr Todd         Apprentices, The         Ballad of Ben Bagot, The         Ballad Of the Artificial Mash, The         Banger, The         Bread and Butter Trade, The         But Fred, Freud is Dead         Cadium Firty         Chestnuts         Clayhanger         Cul de Sac         Dividing Fence, The         England, My Own         Family Ties         Forest Lodge         Fuzz         Geordie's March         Good Lads At Heart         Holder Dying         Hotel Dorado         How To Write A Play         I'm In Charge of these Ruins         Inside-Outside         Jock-on-the-Go         Labels         Limes, The, and I Kid You Not         Lost Yer Tongue?         Love Us and Leave us         Mighty Reservoy, The         Moby Dick         Mooney And his Caravans         Most Cheerful Man, The         Never Right, Yet Again         Night John, The         Night To Make the Angels Weep, A         Pied Piper, The         Pinvin Careless and His Lines of Force         Prisoners Of the War         Rat Run, The         Rattling the Railings         Samaritan, The         Sing an Arful Story         Slip Road Wedding         Soldier Boy         Spring-Heeled Jack         Strippers         Ticket, The         Tolly of the Black Boy         Trip to Florence, The         Twilight Joker         VE Night         Vince Lays the Carpet, and Fred Erects the Tent         We Were All Heroes         Weeping Madonna, The         Wrong First Time         Zigger Zagger