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Pete M Wyer

PETE M WYER  (1964 - )

 Nationality:    English
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Pete's concert commissions include If I had known I was Dreaming, An African Elegy and Flap, (Purcell Room and Queen Elizabeth Hall) and May Peace Prevail on Earth (RPO, Barbican, 2003). Works in multi-media, collaborative Theatre include in the darkness of light (Cochrane Theatre), Machine for Living (Corn Exchange, Brighton, Carol Brown, 2000), Rain at Night (Juilliard Academy, New York, 2002), Another Place (Surrey Dance, Suna Imre, 2003) and Senbazuru (2006), a second Juilliard commission for the centenary of the academy, performed at Lincoln Center, New York with the Juilliard orchestra and opera singers, conducted by Andrea Quinn with choreography by Jessica Lang. He is currently working on a commission for the National Theatre/ENO creating a new opera based on the Moscow Theatre siege of 2003, working with painter John Keane, playwright Bryony Lavery and director, Phyllida Lloyd. He is also scoring the new BBC prime-time television series, Roman Mysteries which begins broadcasting April 2007 and will be broadcast worldwide. An album, Stories from the City at Night, is released by Thirsty Ear Records, New York in 2007.

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below is a list of Pete M Wyer's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Adam's Apple         Cremenville         Finkelstein's Castle         Johnny's Midnight Goggles         You Must Have This

Adam's Apple

Synopsis:
Adam's Apple is "a cycle of intimate and intoxicating songs in which voice, cello, guitar and a fearless physicality interweave." - British theatre Guide

Notes:
Written And Composed by Pete M Wyer in collaboration with Matthew Sharp

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Your Imagination

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Cremenville

Synopsis:
As a brother and sister attempt to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of their father, memories of family, guilt, loss and acceptance surface with beguiling, terrifying, comical consequences. But memories aren't always what they seem in this surreal and haunting tale.

Notes:
A site-specific, immersive, labyrinthine fable combining theatre, video, sound design, operatic And folk singing And A virtuosic band of Cremenvillians

1st Produced:
Leeds Metropolitan Studio    2006

Organisations:
commissioned by Opera North and Leeds Metropolitan University as part of their Resonance programme

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Finkelstein's Castle

Synopsis:
Johnny has disappeared. . .A singing telegram has arrived: "Have embarked on new adventure STOP May have bitten off more than I can chew STOP Am in grave danger STOP Again STOP." Finkelstein's Castle, the sequel to Johnny's Midnight Goggles, is an epic, tongue-in-cheek, Sherlock Holmes 'whodunnit', that takes us from deserted castles in Scotland to a sinister hydro-demolition operation in New York via the half-submerged town of Gallumphing-on-Twee. What dastardly plans for world domination has Johnny stumbled upon this time? And will a pair of Wellington boots be enough to save him from the castle where people enter but no-one EVER returns? A ravishing, virtuosic and thrilling musical adventure story with a twist! P.S You are in grave danger too STOP Sorry STOP

Notes:
Written And Composed by Pete M Wyer

1st Produced:
Pavilion Theatre, Brighton Festival    2009

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Genre:
one-man operatic thriller

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Johnny's Midnight Goggles

Synopsis:
Johnny's been kidnapped, the Black Camel of Takrilakastan has shown up and a mysterious pair of goggles has opened a portal to another world. Midnight is fast approaching and the chase is on to rescue Johnny. Johnny's Midnight Goggles is a mind-and genre-melting explosion of story-telling, ravishing singing, virtuoso cello-playing and sonic wizardry - Tim Burton meets John Adams, Arnold Schwarzenegger meets Edith Piaf, Philip Pullman meets Paganini. Witty, nail-biting and entrancing music theatre with goggles on!

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Written And Composed by Pete M Wyer

1st Produced:
Brighton Dome, Brighton    12 May 2008

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Genre:
one-man operatic thriller

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You Must Have This

Synopsis:
"Budgets are huge, deadlines are tight, truth is pliable and the fate of a new cheese cracker hangs in the balance. . . You Must Have This is a fast-moving operatic satire on TV advertising, where egos collide, friends have affairs with enemies and Brad and Angelina are due at any moment." Jez runs an agency making adverts for TV. It's easy money.except his client is a neurotic nightmare, the competition's stealing his business, his main celebrity has finally gone insane and believes he's God and the ad in question goes on air. TOMORROW!!?? A wry look at a world where smart people, who should know better, manipulate our dreams and desires, only to get hopelessly ensnared themselves.

Notes:
Written And Composed by Pete M Wyer

1st Produced:
work in progress, Tete a Tete Opera Festival    2008

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