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= Peter Cann = Peter Cann is a british playwright and director. Born in Liverpool in 1955, divides his time between Angra do Heroísmo and Birmingham and works in English and Portuguese.

Career
Peter Cann worked as a professional actor, director and playwright since 1980. Wrote plays for small scale touring companies, plays for community tours to non theatre venues and large scale site specific events in Britain, Europe and Jamaica. Also wrote librettos for cantata and operas and screenplays for television and video.

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Pentabus Theatre
He was Artistic Director of Pentabus Theatre from 1985 to 1989. Pentabus is a theater company based in England's rural West Midlands that works solely with original texts commissioned or created by the company itself. Peter Cann's work during his time at The Pentabus includes "All Quiet on The Western Front" (performed at the Edinburgh Festiva l and with a long national and international run), "Becca's Children" and "Dancing with The Devil", as well as a series of community shows involving professional actors and musicians working with large casts made up of amateur actors.

Cães do Mar
Peter Cann is one of the founding members of Cães do Mar, a portuguese azorean company. The company presented it's first work in January of 2017.

Lecturer
Peter Cann was a lecturer in drama at Wolverhampton University, from 2008 to 2022.

Teatro Regional da Serra do Montemuro

 * Três Monólogos de uma Vida
 * Caídos do Céu
 * Memórias Partilhadas (co-production with Teatro Nacional D. Maria II)
 * Pertencia
 * Louco na Serra
 * O Anjo do Montemuro
 * A Taberna
 * Eira dos Cães
 * O Canto da Cepa
 * Alminhas
 * Pizza!
 * Estrada Nacional
 * Enclave

Contigo Teatro (Madeira)

 * Quantos Contas (2022)

Cães do Mar (Terceira, Azores):

 * Os Amores Encardidos de Padi e Balbina (2017)
 * Rimance de Mateus e a Baleia (2018)
 * Retratos de mulheres açorianas (2019-2022)
 * Rua Direita (2021-2022)

Talking Birds (Coventry)

 * The Trade In Lunacy (2013)
 * A Maladie Of Migration (2014)
 * Disorder Contained (2018)

Birmingham Repertory Theatre

 * Nightbus

Pentabus Theatre Company

 * Dancing With The Devil
 * All Quiet On The Western Front
 * The Singing Stone
 * Becca’s Children
 * A Concert party
 * Knock After Dark
 * Different Drums
 * Vaughan
 * The Terrible and Secret
 * Black and Midnight (with Therese Collins )

Solent People’s Theatre

 * The Return Of The Native
 * Neptune’s Gift

Theatre Foundry

 * Babble InTransit
 * The Sea

Absolute Theatre

 * 4 Clowns do Apocalipse (co-production with Teatro Regional do Montemuro)

Theatre Royal Northampton

 * Dragon’s Teeth

Ragged Mouth Theatre

 * The Ballad of Rattlesnake Hannah
 * The Whore’s Mutiny
 * 69 Squadron
 * The Quest for Tarzan
 * Dr Zoff’s Terrible Shrinking Ray
 * The loves of Lilah Liberty,
 * The Romans in Walsall

Absolute Theatre

 * Jericho Stone, 2004. Composer: Simon Fraser and Ibo Cooper


 * Islington – The Opera, 2014. Composer: Simon Fraser
 * Gate, 2002. Composer: Simon Fraser

Birmingham Conservatoire

 * Dee, 2005. Composer: Robin Grant)

Talking Birds

 * Twinsong, 2014. Composer: Derek Nisbett
 * Taking Flight, 2013. Composer: Derek Nisbett

Isango Ensemble

 * La Boheme (new adaptation Isango Ensemble)

Welsh National Opera

 * Of Bricks and Bones, Composer: Andrew Peggie

Salisbury Chamber Orchestra

 * Stari Most, 2005. Composer Richard Chew

Helen Bamber Foundation / Woven Gold Choir

 * Consider the Lilies, 2010. Composer John Barber

Wedmore ​Opera

 * Eleanor Vale, 2012. Composer: John Barber

Others

 * Wild Edric, Composer: Charles Dakin
 * The End and A Dot On The Sun Composer: Robin Grant

Large scale/site specific and community plays

 * Play The Man - A community play for Shrewsbury castle
 * White City, Black Country a play about the three London Olympics at The Black Country Museum
 * The Black Country Mysteries a reworking of Medieval Mystery Plays
 * Robber’s Dog – The Balance (A large scale, multi media, promenade production with a Walsall school community including nursery children, staff and parents 2005)
 * The Resurrectionists – Un-Earth (A large scale piece about the Bosnian war in and around mac)
 * Meet The Future The End (On and around Canon Hill Park lake)
 * Shared Experience - Cry To The Hunt (a multi story car park in Soho)
 * Welsh National Opera - Of Bricks And Bones (a burnt out ballroom in the middle of
 * Birmingham’s Bullring)
 * Pentabus - Possession (Whitley Court) Ringing Down The Shut (St. Chad’s Church and graveyard Shrewsbury)
 * Comus II ( Ludlow Castle)

Theatre in Education

 * Harrogate TiE (Injury Time) Collar and TiE (The Birthday Hunter), Walcat touring (The
 * Creation Trilogy - Prometheus, Baldur, The Dancer On The Bridge of Heaven)
 * Language Alive! – The Green Children, Outlaws

Television and Video.

 * The Blood of Others, After The Workhouse (Central Television)
 * Ramravers - (RMC) Century 21 award at Birmingham Film Festival 1998
 * The Shampoo Set (RMC for Open University)
 * The Difference, I’m Not Complaining, (RMC)
 * The Vawn, Shroves (Community films for Rural Media Company)

Radio

 * The King of Pripyat Radio 4, 2007
 * The Running Man A community radio play devised with communities in The Black Mountains (RMC)

Talking Birds

 * A Malady of Migration Talking Birds Script and lyrics Cann. Music Derek Nisbett.
 * The Trade In Lunacy Talking Birds A play about 18 th Century private asylums. Script and lyrics by Peter Cann. Music Derek Nisbett
 * Taking Flight Talking Birds A song cycle about Frank Whittle

Centric Theatre

 * A World Beyond Man Centric Theatre A one man play. Writer Stephanie Dale. Edinburgh Festival and touring

Orchestra of the Swan

 * Anthony V Cleopatra Orchestra Of the Swan An opera based on Plutarch’s account. Writer Nick Walker. Composer Derek Nisbett 2013
 * Troystory Orchestra of The Swan An opera based on The Illiad and The Odyssey. Composer Derek Nisbett, writer Nick Walker

Birmingham Rep

 * The Witches’ Promise Birmingham Rep A site specific play in Weoley Castle. Writer Steph Dale

Teatro do Montemuro (Portugal)

 * A Taberna,
 * Estrada Nacional,
 * Alminhas,
 * Montanhas Eternas (devised by the company touring throughout Portugal)
 * O Canto da Cepa A large scale play in an old school building in Lamego with a professional cast and community performers.

Pentabus Theatre Company

 * The Ballad Of Johnny Reece by Nick fisher, Bone Harvest by Penny O’Connor, Keeper’s Bitter by John Mash
 * All Quiet On The Western Front – a one man play touring nationally after a run at the Edinburgh festival)

Solent People’s Theatre

 * Three Sheets to the Wind (a promenade performance throughout old Portsmouth)
 * Neptune’s Gift (set during a medieval banquet in Southampton Castle)

Ragged Mouth

 * Baldur


 * Prometheus
 * The dancer On The Bridge of Heaven (touring primary schools)
 * The Ballad Of Rattlesnake Hannah
 * The Whore’s Mutiny
 * 69 Squadron
 * The Quest For Tarzan
 * Dr Zoff’s Incredible Shrinking Ray
 * The Loves of Lilah Liberty - pub tours in The Midlands.