He acted in Tom Kempinski's play, "The Beautiful Part of Myself," at the Palace Theatre in Watford, London, England with Warren Mitchell, Phoebe Nicholls, and John Skitt in the cast. Roger Smith was director.
In 2017, Chater began giving poetry readings and he continued to read the lesson at his local church until lockdown was imposed as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic on 23 March 2020, his 99th birthday.