Background
Shaffer, Peter Levin was born on May 15, 1926 in Liverpool, England. Son of Jack and Reka (Fredman) Shaffer.
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An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, Equus is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion. Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to commit an unspeakable act of violence. As psychiatrist Martin Dysart struggles to understand the motivation for Alan's brutality, he is increasingly drawn into Alan's web and eventually forced to question his own sanity. Equus is a timeless classic and a cornerstone of contemporary drama that delves into the darkest recesses of human existence.
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0riginating at the National Theatre of Great Britain, Amadeus was the recipient of both the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award. In the United States, the play won the coveted Tony Award and went on to become a critically acclaimed major motion picture winning eight Oscars, including Best Picture. Now, this extraordinary work about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is available with a new preface by Peter Shaffer and a new introduction by the director of the 1998 Broadway revival, Sir Peter Hall. Amadeus is a must-have for classical music buffs, theatre lovers, and aficionados of historical fiction.
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Shaffer, Peter Levin was born on May 15, 1926 in Liverpool, England. Son of Jack and Reka (Fredman) Shaffer.
Saint Paul’s School, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Five Finger Exercise 1958, The Private Ear and The Public Eye 1962, The Royal Hunt of the Sun 1964, Black Comedy 1965. White Liars 1967. The Battle of Shrivings 1970, Equus 1973 (film 1977), Amadeus 1979 (film 1984), Yonadab 1985, Lettice and Lovage 1987 (Evening StandardConscript coal mines, England, 1944-1947. With New York Public Library., New York City, 1951-1954, Boosey & Hawkes, London, 1954-1955. Literature critic Truth, 1956-1957.
Music critic Time and Tide, 1961-1962. Freelance playwright, since 1957. Visiting professor contemporary drama Oxford (England) University, 1994-1995.
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(Collected plays of Peter Shaffer)
Fellow Royal Society Lieutenant (London chapter).