His first stage piece THE SWANSONG OF IVANHOE WASTEWAY, a monologue, which he wrote while at university and was produced by his college, moved to Edinburgh and was performed at the Festival Club and subsequently at the Cafe Royal. It had its first London outing at the Brain Club, Soho in 1991. ALLBRIGHT, his original verse play, was performed at the Turtle Key Arts Centre, Fulham in 1991 and his next verse play, VALDORAMA was the debut production of the Grace Theatre at the Latchmere in 1992. In the same year his adaptation of Schiller's DON CARLOS was produced at the Lyric Studio, Hammersmith. His verse adaptations of Sophocles' OEDIPUS TYRANNOS and Plautus THE HAUNTED HOUSE were performed at the Bridge Lane Theatre, Battersea in January 1994. OEDIPUS TYRANNOS was given a new production by Tom Morris as part of the Battersea Arts Centre's 'In the Dark' season earlier this year. Also produced at the Battersea Arts Centre were DON JUAN, his version of Tirso de Molina's EL BURLADOR DE SEVILLA that was Time Out Critic's Choice, his new translation of Racine's PHAEDRA, and CINDERELLA AND THE COAT OF SKINS. FAIR LADIES AT A GAME OF POEM CARDS was mounted at the National in November 1996. It is published by Methuen. He wrote a verse adaptation of Kalidasa's SHAKUNTALA that ran at the Gate in February 1997 and a new version of Lorca's DONA ROSITA THE SPINSTER that opened at the Almeida in April 1998. He was writer in residence at Shakespeare's Globe and during his residency he wrote AUGUSTINE’S OAK which opened there in 1999 to great acclaim. The Gate Theatre in London mounted Peter's new verse adaptation of THE ODYSSEY in November 1999 and his stage dramatisation of the Sanskrit epic THE RAMAYANA opened at the Birmingham Rep on the main stage in 2000. The production then transferred to the Royal National Theatre where it was mounted for a limited run in the Olivier Theatre in April 2001.
