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AuthorPete Barrett

Pete Barrett

Pete Barrett has been writing plays for the last forty years. Plays produced professionally at the Wolsey in Ipswich include broad comedies like 'The Complete Corruption of Carrington' and 'The Revenge of the Mutant Cockle', satirical pieces like ''Guilty (a woman is tried for her failures as a mother, a wife and a female) and 'Jackals' (A middle class family home is surrounded and seemingly menaced by the unemployed), and serious pieces like 'Day-Dreaming on the Motorway'. His play 'The Dying of the Light' was a full length production at the Wolsey Studio. The 'Revenge of the Mutant Cockle' was runner up at last year's All England Play Festival.

A few years ago, he was commissioned to write short stories for the Interact Reading Service which sends professional actors into hospitals to read to groups of stroke patients. This service employs 100 actors working in London hospitals and is currently being rolled out countrywide. Pete has written 36 short stories for the service. 'Out Loud: 36 Twisted Tales' is now available for the Kindle on Amazon.

Pete retired in 2007 to write full time. Since then he has written three full length plays and twelve children's book - the first two 'Tich Vampire Hunter' and 'Tich Dragonslayer' have been published with more on the way.