PILLS, PLANKS AND HIKING BOOTS.
Peter’s first play. A madcap comedy about mental ill-health. Cast of 8.
First produced at The Pentameter’s Theatre. Hampstead. London.
February 1986.
OUR DAILY BREAD
Winner of 6 international awards, including Edinburgh, and with over 1000
performances produced worldwide, including Germany, Austria, South Africa,
Ireland, UK, North America, and even Vietnam!
Two disparate women thrown together by a single, horrifying incident of child abuse. Cast of 2.
First produced at the Half Moon Theatre, East London UK. July 1986
THE GREAT MARMELLO
A zany, fantasy musical comedy about the homeless –
with bingo during the interval!
Music by Rob Keyloch; lyrics by Peter McGarry.
Won a London Time Out award. Cast of 4.
First produced at The Pentameter’s Theatre. Hampstead. London.
February 1989
FAMILY AFFAIRS
A dark, mysterious comedy about an incident of child sexual abuse and its
consequences for the family and the social worker’s own murky past.
Cast of 3.
Winner of the International Theatre Festival, Tampa Bay Fla, 1994
First produced at the Gulbenkian Theatre Canterbury UK June 1992
before a tour of Ireland, the USA and Canada.
LYSISTRATA
A musical adaptation of Aristophanes’ classic Greek comedy
about the first ever sex-strike in history. Cast of 4.
First produced at the Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1996
before three tours of the USA, Ireland, Canada and the UK.
HOME TO ROOST
A heart-breaking drama about the death of a child amidst a backdrop of the
‘troubles’ in Northern Ireland. Cast of 2.
Winner of the International Theatre Festival in Florida and first produced at
the SAK Theatre in Orlando in May 1997. Toured Ireland and North America.
THE KAMA SUTRA
Tristan’s life changes dramatically when wife Pam wife visits the local library
and mistakes a copy of the Kama Sutra for a cookbook –
because all the pages had been stuck together! Cast of 2
First produced at the Green Room, Manchester UK in July 1999
before touring the UK Ireland, North America and Australia.
Recently produced (2019) for a season at Globus Theatre, Ontario, Canada.
A TIME TO GO WALKING
To prepare for his impending death Dicky intends to walk across
the green pastures of Ireland into the Underworld –
as the Celts did in ancient times. Cast of 2.
Winner of the International Theatre Festival in Florida and first produced
at St John’s Theatre, Listowel, Ireland 2002 before touring extensively
in the UK, Ireland and across the USA and Canada.
MACBETH
An abridged one-hour adaptation of Shakespeare’s blood-thirsty tragedy. Cast of 2.
First produced at Denver’s Dangerous in 2000 to critical acclaim,
with performances extensively produced across North America.
MEDEA
A theatrical deconstruction of Euripides’s notorious tragedy about the most
evil crime in history. Cast of 2.
First produced at Orlando Fringe Festival in 1999 with subsequent
productions at the Edmonton International Theatre Festival,
before touring across the USA and Canada.
Recently produced (in 2019) in Manchester UK, before touring Northern and
Central England.
More recently produced online from Denver Colorado, Summer 2020.
FANNY HILL – MEMOIRS OF A WOMAN OF PLEASURE
John Cleland’s bawdy but beautifully scripted novella adapted for the stage.
Cast of 4.
First produced at Bury Arts Centre in 2002 and at the Fringe Festivals across
Canada and North America and more recently at Dangerous Theatre Denver.
TROJAN WOMEN
Lyrical adaptation of Euripides’ tragedy on the fall of Troy and
the consequences for three Trojan princesses. Cast of 3.
Tour of Canada in 2010 and at the Orlando Fringe Festival in 2016.
BLACK STOCKINGS
An unforgivably immoral play about morality and the bombing of Dresden
at the end of WW2. Cast of 2.
First produced at the Grahamstown Arts Festival in South Africa in 2000 and
at North American Theatre Festivals in 2002.
LIMITED AVAILABLE LIGHT
A playlet about digital grooming. Maynard uses his cyber talents to secure
vulnerable children to ‘star’ in his latest movie. Cast of 4.
Originally designed for Health and Social Care Safeguarding Children modules; opened at Wexford Arts Centre before touring Ireland in 2000.
MOLLY
Adaptation for the stage of the final chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
A monologue
First produced at the Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg, Canada in 2004
and at the Edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival in 2009 and again in 2014.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (with NELL CORRIN)
Oscar Wilde’s hilarious comedy adapted for only 4 hands on only 80 minutes.
First produced in 2010 at the Mainline Theatre, Montreal.
Winner of the Edmonton International Theatre Festival.
ASPECTS OF LOVE
A literary history of bawdy sex. Cast of 2.
First produced at the Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg, Canada in 2000
and at the Orlando Fringe Theatre Festival in 2002.
IMMORALITY OF INNOCENCE
A Methodist volunteer innocently befriends a teenage boy –
with dire consequences. Cast of 4
First produced at Wexford Arts Centre in 1994 before touring extensively
in England.
MORE OF A FATHER
Steve returns from prison determined to make child-care changes
in the home. Cast of 3
First produced at Wexford Arts Centre in 1994 before touring England
from 1994 – 2014.
LETTERS OF A MATCHMAKER
A musical adaption of JOHN. B KEANE’S novel about a ‘marriage broker’ in rural Western Ireland. Cast of 6
First produced at St. John’s Arts Centre in July 1996.
Toured Ireland in1996.
DARK WOOD
Three monkeys in a cage. Who are they? Why are they there? Where did they come from – and what was that big explosion?
First produced by Dangerous Theatre, Denver in 2016 and at the Orlando Fringe Festival in 2017.
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN MODULES (1993-2020)
A series of plays designed for Health and Social Care professionals –
generally centered around Child Protection, Inter-Agency collaboration
and Hospital Discharge. Occasional ventures in mainstream performances
but never reviewed – including CRACKING THE CODE, SLAP, SOMETHING OUGHT TO BE DONE.
WAITING FOR GODOT
An adaptation for only 2 hands of Becket’s classic. NOT PRODUCED.
A DOLL HOUSE
Ibsen’s classic domestic tragedy adapted for only 4 hands. NOT PRODUCED.
VIDEO (MOST RECENT)
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE – training video for the NSPCC
GOING HOME – 45 minute training video for NHS on Discharge Procedures 2003
CRACKING THE CODE – Child Protection Training Video [National] 2005
ROBBIE – Child Protection training film for Lincolnshire Social Services 2002
EBL – Training video for Cambridge University 2001
TV
THE PROTECTION OF OTHERS C4 TV 1998
THE FIVE SEASONS BBC TV 1990
A DIFFERENT LEAGUE [BOOTS N’ ALL] SKY TV/ABC
LIES ACTUALLY LBC 2000
SOUND BYTES NOT PRODUCED
RED DRESS REVOLUTION Winner of a BBC Writer’s Room award
RADIO
ARIA FOR ALF LBC RADIO, LONDON, 1990
LYSISTRATA CBC [CANADA] 1996
SOUND OF MAN FALLING OFF WATERFALL 2001
