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Peter Mortimer - poet, playwright, journalist, publisher - has lived in the North East for thirty years, and many of his books and plays have been published and performed here. His books include: The Last of the Hunters: Life with the Fishermen in North Shields; I Married the Angel of the North (poetry); Off the Wall: the Journey of a Play; and Cool for Qat, which grew out of his commission to write a play about the 1930 Yemeni seamen's riot in South Shields; and Camp Shatila - a Writer's Chronicle, grew from two months towards the end of 2008, when he lived in Shatila Refugee Camp, Beirut.
In September 2011, Flambard Press published a collection of Peter's plays for young people, under the title Playtime - Eight Plays for and with Young People. Included are the plays written and performed through long term school projects over a span of 20 years, mainly in the North of England.
Read more about Plays by Peter Mortimer, including the publication of Playtime.
In February 12th 2011, Peter Mortimer returned to Beirut with a six strong production team, for a visit which he describes as "tiring, maddening, but exhilarating. It culminated in the production at East Beirut's Théâtre Monot of Croak the King & a Change in the Weather, Peter Mortimer's play with the children Camp Shatila. The Lebanese morning paper The Daily Star found the play "as surprising as it is inventive"; and this is what the British Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon said about it. The Shatila Theatre Project now has its own website.
The video shows Peter Mortimer on stage at the Théâtre Monot, performing his poem Tsunami, recorded just before the Japanese earthquake made it more timely than ever.
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Photograph © Dylan Mortimer 2011; used with permission.
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Last update: 7th December 2011