Peter Charlton
Photograph (detail): © Jon Conte,1983
Peter Charlton was a leading advocate for theatre-in-education and theatre for young audiences in Melbourne in the 1980s.
While Artistic Director of Children's Arena Theatre (re-named Arena Theatre Company), Peter wrote and directed Australia's first young people's play to be widely successful on the international stage - Wolf Boy.
He was a close colleague of Handspan members and a Guest Artist with the company for Streetwise (1983) and in the early development of The Haunted (1985).
Peter died in 1990.
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