Peter John Cooper...
Peter John Cooper...
Not an AI generated picture:
The audience at “Life and Death and Everything in Between”
Handcrafted human stories. Simple, low tech, low carbon performance. Specially for local audiences.
I have spent the last fifty years making theatre as a playwright and director. That also means fifty years of thinking about what theatre is and does and how.
If you want to read about my ideas about Story Telling and Creativity then click on this link to MY STORY STORY
If you want to dive into my ideas about Writing in a time of turmoil then click on this link to BLOOD AND BONES
If you want to tussle with my thinking about Theatre and Drama for the twenty-first century then click on this link to THE BURNING STAGE
If you want to find out more about me and what I’ve been up to over the past fifty years then click on the link ABOUT ME
I am deeply committed to the idea of the arts as a fundamental human necessity in interpreting and expressing the world we live in and, while we all have to make a living, I find the idea of an Arts Industry which lives off the backs of the inspired and creative to be anathema.
“… programmed into my ear-drums like a comforting case of tinnitus.” C.W. Blackburn
“I didn’t understand a word of it.” Abby G. Poetree
I Make Stories
My whole life has been taken up with Story Telling. I tell funny stories, sad stories, serious stories, weird stories. I like funny and unusual words. Lots of words, cascades of words, torrents of words. I want to bring as much enjoyment to you, the reader, watcher, listener as I do when I am making them up.
I tell them in plays, poems and podcasts. I tell them in videos and live performances.
"I like the process of story telling. The intensity of Living Nature through myself--using the medium of words to define the poetry of living space; that is my aim, life and work."
I make Stories about Railways and Machines
The Runaway Train at the Oxford Playhouse (written with Jem Barnes)
I make stories about significant men and women
Starting with “The Jolly Farmer” about radical politician William Cobbett with Jem Barnes in 1974 through to my trilogy about significant Women of Dorset (Emma Hardy, Mary Anning, Marie Stopes) in the 2000s
I make stories balanced on the Cliff Edge
My podcast “Tales from the Cliff Edge” and my You Tube Channel are packed throughout with strange tales and odds and ends.
I make stories about my wanderings
“Your words have been a great source of gentle, uplifting guidance for me.”
Linda Ni’Man
“Every story is a journey. Every journey is a story”
—My Story Story - Peter John Cooper
Useful Quotes
Work towards what you want. Research it. Listen to others. Make a basic plan and go for it. You’ll figure it out along the way
Keitei Ventures (You Tuber).