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

The playwright and director, who has died aged 86, completed DH Lawrence’s revolution in spotlighting the stories of working people

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Peter Gill, acclaimed playwright and director behind 'The York Realist', dies aged 86

From the Royal Court to the National Theatre, Gill directed nearly 100 productions and wrote some of Britain's most acclaimed modern plays.

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Peter Gill: a theatrical visionary with an unsparing honesty

Gill’s dramas of divided class loyalties such as The York Realist had a clear-eyed precision matched by his rigorous work as a director

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Peter Gill obituary

Acclaimed playwright and director whose reputation was forged at the Royal Court theatre in London

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Peter Gill, playwright who turned ordinary lives into extraordinary drama, dies aged 86

Beginning his career as an actor, Gill went on to write plays including The York Realist as well as directing for the Royal Court and National Theatre

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Jane Lapotaire obituary

Stage and screen actor hailed for her work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and for her TV role as Marie Curie

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William Dudley obituary

Innovative theatre designer who was one of the outstanding new stars to emerge in the 1970s

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Other lives: Director and tutor who helped launch the careers of dozens of playwrights

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Hexham pensioner caught with child sex abuse images for second time avoids jail again

Pervert Peter Gill has been given a further suspended sentence, despite also being given one in 2017 for similar offending

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Blue Whale Study observes 'quite thin' animals as warming ocean puts pressure on food source

Blue whales are beginning their migration north to breed, but skinnier than usual animals spotted off Australia's coast are leaving researchers worried about their food source.

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Bannockburn minister criticises UK government's proposed 'inhumane' asylum bill

Rev Peter Gill left Pakistan 20 years' ago after experiencing hostility over Christianity.

Daily Record

Former Paisley minister who fled religious persecution dubs new immigration bill "inhumane"

Reverend Peter Gill, the former minister of Wallneuk North Church, fled Pakistan after being attacked by an angry mob and persecuted for his Christian faith.

Daily Record

The week in theatre: Something in the Air; A Dead Body in Taos – reviews

Peter Gill’s subtle new play finds the power of love in the smallest of details, while David Farr explores strained family bonds in a transhuman future

The Guardian - UK

‘I threw my arms around Beckett!’ – electrifying first nights, by Ciarán Hinds, Eileen Atkins and more

The author of a new book about the greatest openings in theatre history asks stars of stage to recall their most thrilling first nights – and the occasional disasters that befell them

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Something in the Air review – Peter Gill proves how brightly remembered lives can shine

Gill weaves an intricate, poignant picture of London’s queer history as two elderly men ruminate on the long-gone loves of their youth

Liverpool Echo

Liverpool 'doll whisperer' hopes to find love on ITV's Dress to Impress

Peter Gill competed against two other hopeful singletons in a bid to win a romantic date

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Barnaby Joyce’s dam water set to cost 100 times more than market rates

Project backed by the National party is expected to top $162,000 per megalitre if cost recovery is pursued

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