By Doreen Crowther, Showbusiness Correspondent ACTOR Peter Collins from Bolton is on tour with the internationally award-winning Theatre de Complicite in a production of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

The play will be performed in the round at The Arena, King's Dock, Liverpool, from this Thursday until Saturday _ the only northern dates on the three-venue tour.

It is a coup for the Everyman Theatre and continues the theatre's hugely successful Playing Away initiative in which their programmes are exported to other venues in Liverpool.

The production comes directly from a sell-out run at the Royal National Theatre and features actress Juliet Stevenson.

Peter, like other members of the cast plays a variety of speaking roles and is on stage all the time.

He said: "This is the most interesting and exciting company I have ever worked with and of course it was marvellous to work at the National."

A former pupil at Canon Slade School, Peter, 24, has been interested in drama since the age of 11. He was a member of the Astley Bridge Theatre Church and joined the National Youth Theatre in 1988.

While at Nottingham University where he graduated with honours in English, Peter was president of the Drama Society. He did a post-graduate course in theatre, mainly acting and directing.

This year he played Brutus in Julius Caesar and Laertes in Hamlet with Theatre Babel in Scotland and on tour.

He made an educational video with the Scripture Union recently. For children aged seven to 10, it is called Going Bananas.

One of his ambitions is to work at Bolton's Octagon Theatre. "I would love to do that," he said.

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