Peter’s photographed drama from the inside, touring internationally as a member of travelling theatre group Footsbarn for several years. He’s also photographed the high-end alchemy of Arthur Miller coaching Warren Mitchell on stage, TV’s The Comic Strip and the street-level mayhem of European touring troupes such as Archaos and Els Comediants.
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Waiting for Godot by the Wayland Prison Drama Group inside HMP Wayland to an invited 'captive' audience and performed by 'captive' players
Waiting for Godot by the Wayland Prison Drama Group inside HMP Wayland to an invited 'captive' audience and performed by 'captive' players
Waiting for Godot by the Wayland Prison Drama Group inside HMP Wayland to an invited 'captive' audience and performed by 'captive' players
Waiting for Godot by the Wayland Prison Drama Group inside HMP Wayland to an invited 'captive' audience and performed by 'captive' players
Waiting for Godot by the Wayland Prison Drama Group inside HMP Wayland to an invited 'captive' audience and performed by 'captive' players
Waiting for Godot by the Wayland Prison Drama Group inside HMP Wayland to an invited 'captive' audience and performed by 'captive' players
Waiting for Godot by the Wayland Prison Drama Group inside HMP Wayland to an invited 'captive' audience and performed by 'captive' players
Els Comediants the Catalan street theatre company perfoming The Devils, Catalunia, Spain 1981
Els Comediants the Catalan street theatre company perfoming The Devils, Catalunia, Spain 1981
Jane Arden was a ground-breaking figure in feminist theatre whose play, "Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven" was the first play to emerge from the Women's Liberation Movement. Staring Sheila Allen & Victor Spinetti was staged at Jim Haynes’s Arts Lab Drury Lane, London 1968
Jane Arden was a ground-breaking figure in feminist theatre whose play, "Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven" was the first play to emerge from the Women's Liberation Movement. Staring Sheila Allen & Victor Spinetti was staged at Jim Haynes’s Arts Lab Drury Lane, London 1968
Jane Arden was a ground-breaking figure in feminist theatre whose play, "Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven" was the first play to emerge from the Women's Liberation Movement. Staring Sheila Allen & Victor Spinetti was staged at Jim Haynes’s Arts Lab Drury Lane, London 1968
Pearls From The Grit, produced by The Poetry People. A touring show about Lowestoft's fishing village known as The Grit. Writer & Narartor Dean Parkin, Composer & Pianist Maurice Horhut "Tickler Sam", Sally-Ann Burnett "Ruby". Tim Fitzhigham "Billy & Host", David Redgrave "Neo & Happy Welham". Photographer Peter Everard Smith
Pearls From The Grit, produced by The Poetry People. A touring show about Lowestoft's fishing village known as The Grit. Writer & Narartor Dean Parkin, Composer & Pianist Maurice Horhut "Tickler Sam", Sally-Ann Burnett "Ruby". Tim Fitzhigham "Billy & Host", David Redgrave "Neo & Happy Welham". Photographer Peter Everard Smith
Peter Richardson and Rik Mayall, actor director and actor in The Comic Strip C4 TV series circa 1988/89
Footsbarn Travelling Theatre Rockband, Baranco da Cima, Alentejo, Portugal 1981
Margaret Bierie and Maggie Watkiss in rehearsal for Footsbarn's mumming play, The Devil, The Doctor and The Fool. Baranco da Cima, Alentejo Portugal 1983
Footsbarn Travelling Theatre, "Hamlet"Gertrude (Margret Bierey) and Hamlet (Rod Goodall) Footsbarn perform Shakespeare's Hamlet, Gallway, Ireland 1981
Footsbarn Travelling Theatre, Hamlet's Ghost,(Paddy Hayter) Footsbarn perform Shakespeare's Hamlet, Gallway, Ireland 1981
Footsbarn Travelling Theatre. Footsbarn perform King Lear by William Shakespear, Roche Feronde, Gard, France 1984
Footsbarn Travelling Theatre. Footsbarn perform King Lear by William Shakespeare, Roche Feronde, Gard, France 1984
Footsbarn Travelling Theatre Rod Goodall and Dave Johnson rehearsing Footsbarn's Mumming play, The Devil, The Doctor and The Fool. Baranco da Cima, Alentejo, Portugal 1983
Footsbarn World Tour brochure including shows: Shakespear's Hamlet, Garcia Marques A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings and Jorge Luis Borges; The Disinterested Killer. 1981-83
Footsbarn Travelling Theatre, Circus Tosov, Andalucia, Spain 1981
Footsbarn's Circus Tosov perform the famous Elasic Band Trick. Somewhere in Spain 1981
Ken Campbell's Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams staged at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London May 1979
Ken Campbell's Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams staged at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London May 1979
Cirque Archaos, the French ‘Punk Circus’ performing on the South Bank, London 1989
Arthur Miller rehearsing with Warren Mitchell.. University of East Anglia 1991
Arthur Miller rehearsing with Prunella Scales and Warren Mitchell, University of East Anglia 1991
Cirque Aligre. “They eat rats, dont they”! The rumours surrounding Cirque Aligre before their arival in Barcelona. In fact its the very reversal of the Lion Tamer circus act where instead of putting his head in the lions mouth the rat puts its head in the Rat Man’s mouth. Barcelona Spain 1981
Escape Artists Theatre Company a professional theatre company from Cambridge rehearse “Blagger”. Escape Artists was formed by actors originally from the Wayland Prison Drama Group
Escape Artists Theatre Company a professional theatre company from Cambridge rehearse “Blagger”. Escape Artists was formed by actors originally from the Wayland Prison Drama Group
Escape Artists rehearse The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter. Escape Artists was formed by actors originally from the Wayland Prison Drama Group
Escape Artists rehearse “Bach Mozart”.Escape Artists was formed by actors originally from the Wayland Prison Drama Group
Escape Artists rehearse “Bach Mozart”.Escape Artists was formed by actors originally from the Wayland Prison Drama Group
