Peter is a theatre director, dramatist, actor, poet and always socially-engaged artist. On CaimbeulCraic you will meet him - and his spoken, written and digital words - in an eclectic mix of short stories, poems, haiku, landai, sounds, images, video/film, and then some craic (of course).
Half man/half machine Peter grew up with one foot firmly planted on the beautifully wild islands of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland (the man), and one foot stuck in the crazy urban chaos that is London (the machine). Peter now lives full-time in Denmark, but still travels the world from his base in Frederiksberg.
Peter looks back today at over 50 years of creating artwork around the world - dramatising and directing theatre productions that have ranged from Salman Rushdie to Voltaire, from Norman Mailer to Amin Maalouf, together with the best contemporary Danish and international artists - and more often than not in a close cooperation with local communities. His latest theatre work was the verbatim theatre performance "The Crime of Silence" based on the Bertrand Russell Tribunal held in Roskilde in 1967, where ordinary citizens from Roskilde, together with some of the leading artists and intellectuals of the day, amongst whom were Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, powerfully accused the USA of war crimes and genocide in Vietnam. The verdict of the Tribunal: USA was guilty, as charged.
In 2009 he established the Cultural Association WorldWideWords a.k.a.WoWiWo, which is based in the heart of the ancient capital of Denmark, Roskilde. Since 2009 WoWiWo has arranged word festivals, word-workshops and word-events with writers and poets including amongst many others The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company (UK), Zuki Wanner (RSA/Zim/Zam), Merete Pryds Helle (DK), TJ Dema (Bots.) and Benjamin Zephaniah (UK/Jam.). WoWiWo has also represented Denmark at international festivals - for example at the Lviv Festival of Literature in Ukraine (the biggest, brightest and best literature festival in eastern Europe). His own word-work has ranged from SMS poetry sessions in Zambia to giant "Burning Haiku" installations at the annual Roskilde Light Festival to his augmented reality poetry chap-book "The Haikus of Hallucinogenia" (see here on this site) .
Peter is bi-lingual (Danish/English) peppered with an occasional bout of French and a very wee touch of the ancient gaelic language - when needed, and if pressed.
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There will be links to Peter's live projects - in Roskilde, in Denmark and whenever they happen in the rest of the world.
There will also be links to those people, places and projects he thinks are way too good to not shout about! Such as the Facebook link (below) to WorldWideWords!
Peter - half man, half machine. Photo: Bumbum Malou.
Burning Haiku (for Ukraine) - at Roskilde Light Festival 2018
"While you collect bones
They're burning all the bridges
Have we lost our souls?"
A collection of the Brechtian "estrangement/ verfremdungseffekt" signs used for the verbatim theatre play "The Crime of Silence" written in 2018 about the Bertrand Russell Tribunal held in Roskilde in 1967 where the USA was charged with war crimes and genocide in Vietnam.