Author and tennis fan Peter Cheevers was on his daily walk when he realised the full affect coronavirus was having on his Sittingbourne club.
On a sunny Sunday, the courts would normally have been full of players lobbing shots at each other. But this weekend they were strangely quiet and empty.
So on his return home to Albany Road, the author of Coping With Family Stress penned a few memories of days gone by for his own Lockdown Diary.
He wrote: "It is a glorious Sunday morning and the sun, with not a cloud in sight to filter its revitalising beams, shines down on Sittingbourne or, as some term it, The Bourne.
"I am on my daily escape routine from the national lockdown which, for me, consists of a not-too-brisk walk.
"I pass by Sittingbourne Tennis Club and reflect that on such a beautiful day I would normally have been in the throes of a tennis match.
"It would often entail trying to retrieve the racquet thrown by a notoriously temperamental player who had hurled it into the branches of one of the trees which stand like sentries around the courts.
"Tennis, apart from its exercise benefits, is a well-documented means of getting rid of aggression.
"If not trying to retrieve the racquet, I would probably be listening to the wag protesting about a ball being called out, when it was clearly in, and taunting the line-caller with ‘Have you ever thought of going to Specsavers?’
"Or I would have been listening to another player who seems to have more bunny than Watership Down, famed for its talkative rabbits.
"I do miss all those characters as I pause and look at the pristine, green lawns of the club.
"On a morning such as this, I would normally hear the raucous shouts of football players as well.
"I suppress an inner sigh of despair at these science fiction times we are all enduring.
"I know it will pass eventually and sooner rather than later I will be climbing a tree again to retrieve that elusive tennis racquet."
Dr Cheevers was once drawn to face former top British tennis player Mark Cox at Wimbledon in the Great British Senior Championships but went down 6-0, 6-1 to the 76-year-old master.
one person show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE6D2qJgSgs&t=2sc
Dr Peter Cheevers and partner Fiona at Buckingham Palace Garden Party 2017
London Nights, a short film produced by London Film School
2017 London Nights (London Film School) Features Peter Cheevers telling stories about London in the 60s.
http://www.hospitalradioswale.org.uk/
nother new live show starts Monday, 12 noon to 1pm every Monday and Thursday with Peter peter cheevers one-person-show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE6D2qJgSgs
2017 Download (below) Peter Cheever playing Lead in the film THE THIRD DEGREE
2017 Watch Peter Cheevers as THE BOSS in film THE SHERIFF OF KILKENNY
Peter Cheevers' one person show on You Tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE6D2qJgSgs
Peter Cheevers' published work
Peter Cheevers' published work
Read review of Dr Peter Cheevers book at:
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-mail-on-sunday-you/20071216/282364035341542
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Peter Cheevers comments in the New York Times
http://shouldiputacommathere.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/petercheevers-englandmarch14.html
Peter Cheevers caught in A MORAL DILLEMMA on You Tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WubBEH5pd-g
Peter Cheevers in the the television programme The Bill
Peter Cheevers talks to the BBC about his book on SAD and the beneficial effects on us of LIGHT.(Press Radio Interview opposite)
Peter Cheevers' Book on Family Stress on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_3yD0p5G4Y
BBC Radio - Dr Peter Cheevers talking to Lenbit Opik MP about little green men.
The Sheriff of Kilkenny Peter Cheevers plays lead in new film
Equity no: M00048478
See acting showreel:
https://vimeo.com/196058457
recent music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQBn0hmCp8M
See acting showreel:
https://vimeo.com/196058457
recent music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQBn0hmCp8M
Training: RADA (Summer Course) under Tutor Geoff Bullen (Drama Coach) & Robert Palmer (Voice Coach).
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As a teenager Peter Cheevers was Junior and then Senior Amateur Boxing Champion
At the age of 22 Peter was Paul McCartney’s stunt double on the film Help and went on location filming with the Beatles to Nassau in the Bahamas.
Watch Peter Cheevers talking about when he worked with the
Beatles in the Bahamas on the film, Help (2.10 mins - 4.50 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3DSiaG_fOw
Cast in documentaty on the film Help
Eleanor Bron | ... | Herself | |
Peter Cheevers | ... | Himself |
Then
Now
Lister to Dr Peter Cheevers talking book on Stress published by Sheldon Press
then and now
Peter Cheevers in Moscow
Peter Cheevers in
Moscow wearing theory like a Versace waistcoat.
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In 1982 his one-man-show Harry Carpenter Never Said It Was Like This became a major television ‘play of the month’; Peter Cheevers co-authored the television play with Ian La Frenais of Likely Lads fame. |
Television
Henry Intervening BBC Director: Ernest Vince
Red Roses for Me BBC Director Alan Gibson
Minder ITV Director Roy Ward Baker 1984
Minder ITV Director: Ian Toynton 1986
The Bill Director Peter Cregeen
Harry Carpenter Never Said it Was Like This
(co-authored with Ian La Frenais) Director Tony Simmons
Henry Intervening BBC Director: Ernest Vince
Red Roses for Me BBC Director Alan Gibson
Minder ITV Director Roy Ward Baker 1984
Minder ITV Director: Ian Toynton 1986
The Bill Director Peter Cregeen
Harry Carpenter Never Said it Was Like This
(co-authored with Ian La Frenais) Director Tony Simmons
Film
The Great Vivendi (Lead) Beaconsfield Studios
The Actor (on location with Eddie Large).
No One at The Wheel (location) Director/Writer Peter Cheevers
Radio/Voice work:
BBC Seamus Heany poetry.
Narrator for production of River Dance.
Interviews: ‘World at One’ Radio 4, Radio London, Capital Radio. BBC Radio Kent.
Theatre:
Ned Kelly (Lead) City Lit Director: Miriam Andrews
Twelfth Night (Tour) Director: Nicholas Renton
Othello Director Café Theatre Director David Creedon
Under the Auspices Half Moon Theatre Director: Robert Walker
The Ring Gangsters Half Moon Theatre
Down and Out in Paris Gate Theatre Director: Lou Stein
Empire Builders Gate Theatre (with Dudley Sutton) Director: Lou Stein
Dudley Sutton & Peter Cheevers
We all live in Pennsylvania Elephant Theatre Writer/Director Peter Cheevers
Butterfly
Fingers (Pantomime) Kingston Theatre Director: Lou Stein
Sound
of Music Margate Pavilion Director: Anna Nugent
A
Tale of Two Cities Broadstairs Playhouse Director: Philip Noyce
Babes
in the Wood Margate Pavilion Director; Anna Nugent
Charlie Maine (Lead) Café Theatre and Hampstead Theatre Director/Writer Bee Cutler
One
Person Show (various London venues and Edinburgh Festival)
Critical Reviews
Aftermath - A one man show
The Scotsman: "Peter Cheevers' new one man show is potentially excellent. At the moment it is diverse, nicely sardonic, versatile and more than a little baffling. There was a definite air of something happening but no one knew quite what. Cheevers is a talented performer, and the characters with whom he peopled his show were beautifully drawn".
Harry Carpenter
John Osborne: "I kept thinking of Marlon Brando's famous scene in the back seat of the car from On The Waterfront, 'I could have had class', he lamented. His anguish was almost Lear-like. Mr Cheevers seemed as if he might not only play the violin again but learn the pianoforte as well".
Ray Connolly: '...of all the films and plays I have seen about the fight game I would have to say that this was one of the most forceful, partly because of Peter Cheever's performance.'
The Ring Gangsters
Linsday Duguid in the Times Literary Supplement: '...the season's masterpiece, the single dinner jacketed actor holds the stage presenting spectators, participants and commentators in funny informative touching entertaining and authentic parodies
Time Out '...Cheevers presents some remarkable ringside caricatures.'
Owen Dudley Edwards The Scotsman:
'He knows how to change personality in a flicker, and how to suggest vital figures present in the empty air around him. He can bounce with confidence and virtually die from battering with the same credibility...the evening remains a testament to an actor whose consistent professionalism is wholly at the service of his deep humanity".
Linsday Duiguid Time Literary Supplement
Peter Cheevers one-person show is the Masterpiece of the Season
Sheriff of Nottingham
"Peter Cheevers oozed nastiness as the Sheriff of Nottingham and was a real scene-stealer bringing an instant response from the youngsters whenever he ventured onto the stage".
Gallery
While filming No One At The Wheel
Modelling for Queen Magazine: Photographer Duffy
In Hollywood, a bit of recreation, from writing 'scripts'
Writing for Walt Disney
D 88073 | Donald Duck Storage | 4 rows per page | Plot: Peter Cheevers Script: Jack Sutter Pencils: Vicar | 1989-10-26 | Appearances: Daisy Duck, Donald Duck | |
D 88062 | Donald Duck Homing Pigeons | 9 p. 4 rows per page | Plot: Peter Cheevers Script: Tom Anderson Pencils:Vicar | 1990-02-22 | Appearances: Daisy Duck, Donald Duck, Gladstone Gander Description: Trying to get GL's home pigeon message |
Ring Gangsters
'The masterpiece of the season...' Linsay Duguid in the Times Literary Supplement
As Ned Kelly
Classical Music play/concert on Great Composers at St. Johns, Smith Square London
Peter Cheevers is an award winning writer he has had 2 books published: 'Family Stress' published by SPCK and 'SAD' published in America by Hunter Press.
His Journalism & Short Stories are published by Ether Books
http://catalog.etherbooks.com/Authors/1118
Peter Cheevers in Moscow wearing theory like a Versace waistcoat.
Other Poetry & Journalism published
BBC radio interview
http://petercheeversactingcv.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/blog-post.html
Education: BA(Hons) Literature Philosophy, MA Semiotics London Institute The Demise of the Avant Garde, PhD The Subject and its Performance, Brunel University. Former School Governor and Chairperson for Hospital Radio
Below: artists impression of Peter Cheevers while doing his PhD
Peter Cheevers is a County tennis player (Kent),his other hobbies are fencing and playing his guitar badly - much to the annoyance of his partnerand four daughters. Biography: Peter Cheevers At 21 Peter was Paul McCartney‟s double in the fill Help and went to New York and Nassau with the Beatles to work on the film. After an accident on the film Catlow, trying to climb into a moving stagecoach to arrest Yul Brynner) Pete decided that the pen was safer than the sword and became a publicist on the film Eight Bells Toll, with Anthony Hopkins. He then did a period of study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After leaving RADA, alongside his theatrical performances, he had parts in such low brow perennials as Minder; the Bill etc His „triumph‟ at the Edinburgh Festival in a one person show was subsequently adapted for television with Ian la Frenais (Porridge & Likely Lads). The resulting television play Harry Carpenter Never Said it was like This! was lauded by John Osborne who compared Cheevers‟ performance and the sympathy of the play to Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront. Peter won a Player & Players writing award for his short play They Stripped the Light Fandango. He has had his poetry published and is an award winning journalist. He co-wrote SAD with Fiona Marshall published by Hunter House in the United States, and recently wrote How to Overcome Family Stress, published by Sheldon Press in the UK. Peter Cheevers has a BA in Lit/Phil, an MA in Video and Experimental Film, and a Doctorate on Performance and Reality in the Quantum World. He lives with his partner and four daughters in Kent, England
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