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Peter Gill showed theatre audiences that anywhere could be the centre of the world

theguardian.com · 6dShare

The playwright and director, who has died aged 86, completed DH Lawrence’s revolution in spotlighting stories of working people Peter Gill: a theatrical visionary with an unsparing honesty I was, in Michael Coveney’s parlance , one of Peter Gill’s acolytes. I knew him in his autumn; after he’d directed his last play for the National, after he’d moved from Harriet Devine’s house in Hammersmith, where he lived for most of his adult life, into his flat a little further down the river. For 20 years we met there, or in the community centre when we held workshops with actors to help him develop material. One day he told me I should write a book about him: “I introduced postmodernism to the theatre, darling.” I was proud he’d asked me, a feeling that only slightly receded when I read an article by Nina Raine a few years later, in which she revealed he’d suggested the same thing to her. Now Peter has died, I have a strong feeling I should be writing about him again. I think the framework hasn’

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