Peter John Cooper

Welcome

Welcome to my website. I hope you’ll find all sorts of things to amuse you with links to some of my poems (“Poem of the Week”) and projects as well as my history and publications (“About”)and, if you are a booker, information under the heading “Press” that you can use directly for publicity. Any events that I’m taking part in or rehearsals or shows with dates and so on in the “Events” section but if there’s anything you would like to know then just go to “Contact”. Check out videos of projects on YouTube, Vimeo . You can find various bits and pieces on Facebook - Peter John Cooper Playwright - and Twitter .

From the West Cliff

Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival 2020

A podcast interview by Timo Peach called Talking Distance. Enjoy.

A Little Bit of Self Promotion

Keeping Up

You’ll be glad to know that we are all well and have survived up to now. I hope the last few months haven’t been too trying for you. Oddly enough, for all that time in lockdown I haven’t done any updates for this site. I’ve been making some little You Tube videos which you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3ivXR28aXGEQ4Pt7Ivxmr7AEQvI7JkOO

I’ll update you with some more of my other work as soon as I can. It also looks as though the site could do with a bit of a spring clean. I want to post some of the juicy bits from my musings on writing stories in My Story Story. I hope the rest of 2020 will give me time to get nearer to finishing Life and Death and Everything in Between which has been languishing on my hard drive for a couple of years now. Drop me an email if you’d like me to include any particular work.

Publications

Recent work available to purchase online

Blood and Bones Theatre Can theatre provide a plausible, authentic narrative for this Age of Fakery? My meditation on being a playwright in the 21st Century. Follow this post and then Click on this link … read more

She Opened the Door “More than a play” A controversial attempt to understand Thomas Hardy by looking at the women who surrounded him. An actual play script and essays on the extensive research that produced it. Amazon link http://www.amazon.co.uk/Peter-John-Cooper/e/B00ABZSPLU… read more

The Death of the Hurdy Gurdy Boy “It is dark as history is dark” Tommy is the ghost of a Victorian street urchin. He cannot rest until he finds who murdered him and why. He enlists the help of lonely teenage violinist Tamara and together they embark on an extraordinary journey through an alien 21st century. Funny, touching and, at times, disturbing.… read more

Feer of The Future “to make you shudder and smile” Science Fiction as you remember it. Robots, alien space invasion, travel to distant galaxies. Peter John Cooper the master story-teller draws his inspiration from the classics of the genre, Isaac Asimov, H.G. Wells, Kurt Vonnegut and Phillip K. Dick. 23 bite sized pieces of fiction and poetry to make you shudder and smile.… read more

New York Kidnap “a fascinating story” Tamara the young violinist is held captive in a New York hotel room and, deeply scared, she pleads for help from the only person in the world who can help her, Tommy the ghost of a Victorian street urchin. A startling chase across the United States ending up in a small mining town in South Dakota while a blizzard rages.… read more

Peter John Cooper – Plays Online A selection from Peter John Cooper’s extensive back catalogue. Thrillers, adaptations and comedies. Available to buy online from Lazy Bee Press – http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/Authors/Author.aspx?iIA=416… read more