Peter Morris (playwright)

Peter Morris
Born	1973 (age 43–44) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Occupation	Playwright, critic
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	Yale University Somerville College, Oxford
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Notable work(s)	Guardians

Peter Morris (born 9 November 1973) is an American playwright, television writer and critic, best known for his work in British theatre.

Morris was born in Philadelphia and educated at The Haverford School and Yale University, graduating in 1997. He then studied at Somerville College, Oxford on a grant from the British Academy where he was active with OUDS as a writer and performer.

Morris' plays are noteworthy for their willingness to address difficult political topics, including the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse in Guardians and the murder of James Bulger in “The Age of Consent”. He is additionally known for his innovative adaptations of work by previous writers, including Aristophanes, Gilbert and Sullivan, and Maurice Maeterlinck.

Morris has been included as part of the British school of "In-Yer-Face Theatre" by critic Aleks Sierz.

Morris' play The Age of Consent, starring Ben Silverstone and Katherine Parkinson, “generated enormous controversy” on its premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2001, due to its examination of the aftermath of the murder of James Bulger, and led to calls for a public boycott after the play’s sympathetic stance towards the ten-year-old children convicted of Bulger’s murder was publicly condemned by the mother of James Bulger as “sick and pathetic”, but the play was publicly defended by the director of the Edinburgh Fringe, who stated that “controversy is always a part of the festival and it would not be the fringe festival if some difficult issues were not being tackled”.

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