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# Peter Flannery

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Peter Flannery is an English playwright and screenwriter. He was born in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear and educated at the University of Manchester. He is best known for his work while a resident playwright at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Notable plays during his tenure

##  Quotes by Peter Flannery

> [“A silence settled over the city, a silence that spoke of twenty thousand equally sad goodbyes: lover to lover, mother to son,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-flannery/a-silence-settled-over-the-city-a-silence-that-spoke-of-twenty/)

Peter Flannery

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