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Peter Moffat

PETER MOFFAT

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  represented by Charles Walker

Moffat is a former barrister; one of his early commissions was for an episode of Kavanagh QC. He has since created three British television legal dramas: North Square, Criminal Justice and Silk. He also wrote the miniseries Cambridge Spies and the television film Einstein and Eddington, as well as a reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth for the BBC's ShakespeaRe-Told series. Moffat wrote the historical drama The Village, depicting life in a Derbyshire village through the eyes of a central character, Bert Middleton. The first series, covering the years 1914 to 1920 in six episodes, premieres on BBC1 in 2013. Moffat envisions more series totalling up to 42 episodes that will continue the story through the 20th century. The proposed project is similar to the German film series Heimat, written and directed by Edgar Reitz, which told the story of a German family from 1919 to 2000. Peter Moffat is married to an author and has two teenage children. He has lived in London for the last 20 years. His grandfather and great grandfather were shepherds in Tweedsmuir. Their lives inspired his TV series The Village. Peter's father joined the Colonial Police Force in Tanganyika and later the Army, so the family, including young Peter, moved from country to country every two years.

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below is a list of Peter Moffat's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Blue Garden, The         Brilliant Days         Fine And Private Place, A         Iona Rain         Katherine         Nabokov's Gloves         Vera Baxter

Blue Garden, The

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It's 1940 and Raymond and Sophie Apple are a golden couple he is a respected poet and the beautiful Sophie is famous for her blue garden. Into their lives comes a refugee from war torn Europe. Many years later a probing American biographer uncovers a hidden truth that threatens to destroy the past

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1st Produced:
Roxbury Hotel, Glebe, NSW, Australia    12 Apr 2007

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Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/70782

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Brilliant Days

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Fine And Private Place, A

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Broadcast on BBC Radio 1997

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Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London    1994

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Iona Rain

Synopsis:
Four friends who were at public school together meet again thirty years later on the island of Iona

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1st Produced:
Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London    12 May 1996

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Contained in: Frontline Drama volume Seven: First Plays" published by Methuen Drama 2000   -

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Katherine

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Man In the Moon Theatre, London    1988

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Nabokov's Gloves

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A young disarming client wreaks havoc on the complacency of a hotshot barrister in this exploration of male obsession and betrayal.

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Samuel French, London, 2005   -

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Vera Baxter

Synopsis:
Vera Baxter is talking to a woman in a bar. It seems that the woman was attracted to her by hearing her name called out: "Baxter, Vera Baxter." In response to her new friend's queries, Vera recounts the story of her life, beginning with marrying her no-good husband Cayre, who has been using her for some time as a kind of unpaid prostitute in order to keep his failing building business afloat.

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adapted from novel by Marguerite Duras

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adaptation

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