Peter Shaffer
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Sir Peter Levin Shaffer was an English playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. His best-known works are the plays Equus and Amadeus, both of which earned him the Tony Award for Best Play. They were la
Shaffer in 1966
Shaffer in 1975
Grave of Robert Leonard and Peter Shaffer in Highgate Cemetery
Equus (play)
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Equus is a 1973 play by Peter Shaffer, about a child psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses.
Peter Shaffer
…Sir Peter Levin Shaffer (15 May 1926 – 6 June 2016) was an English playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. His best-known works are the plays Equus (1973) and Amadeus (1979), both of which earned him the Tony Award for Best Play. They were later adapted for the screen by Shaffer himself in 1977 and…
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Charles S. Dutton as Dysart in Equus, as directed by Brad Mays in May 1979 in Baltimore
Lauren Raher and Brad Mays as Jill and Alan in Equus, as directed by Mays in May 1979 in Baltimore
Daniel Radcliffe arriving for a performance of Equus in 2008.