[Alan Plater, playwright and television dramatist (Z-Cars and the Beiderbecke series).] Three photographs of Plater with students at the residential writing course at Fen Farm in Suffolk, each with signed caption by organizer Sally Warboyes.

Author: 
Alan Plater [Alan Frederick Plater] (1935-2010), playwright and television dramatist (Z-Cars and the Beiderbecke series) [Sally Worboyes, Fen Farm, Suffolk]
Alan Plater
Publication details: 
No date (1990s). Fen Farm, Suffolk.
£75.00
SKU: 24086

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The three items are from the papers of Sally Worboyes, organiser of the residential arts courses at her home, Fen Farm in Suffolk, who has provided a signed caption on the reverse of each of the prints. All three in good condition. ONE and TWO: Black and white photographs, both 12 x 17 cm. ONE is in portrait, and shows Plater seated at a country table, in shirtsleeves, jeans and trainers, looking over with concentration and expressively spread hands. On back: ‘Alan Plater at my home. / Sally Worboyes’. TWO is in landscape. It shows a smiling Plater, seated with three students at a dinner table in a wood-beamed room. With cigarette in hand, and elbows on a table with several bottles of wine. On back: ‘Alan with his group of students / Sally Warboyes’, and in another hand ‘Alan Plater at Fen Farm. Course: Playwriting T.V., Theatre’. THREE is a colour photograph,15 x 10 cm and landscape. Depicts a happy group, with a smiling Plater sits on a garden bench flanked by two students, with five more in a row behind him and one kneeling to the left of the bench. On reverse: ‘Alan Plater with his Students at my home - ‘in the garden’. / Sally Warboyes’. See image.