Peter Shaffer
Peter Shaffer was born in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom on May 15th, 1926 and is the Screenwriter. At the age of 90, Peter Shaffer biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Theatrical career
On November 8, 1955, Shaffer's first play, The Salt Land (1955), was shown on ITV. Shaffer, a writer who began writing and established his reputation as a playwright in 1958, with the creation of Five Finger Exercises, which opened in London under the direction of John Gield, and received the Evening Standard Drama Award. When Five Finger Exercises first came to New York City in 1959, it was equally well received, winning Shaffer the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play.
The Private Ear/The Public Eye, Shaffer's new play, contained three characters and exploring aspects of love. Both Maggie Smith and Kenneth Williams appeared at the Globe Theatre in May 1962, and they were on display in May 1962. At the age of 27, Smith received the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Leading Actress.
The National Theatre was established in 1963, and virtually all of Shaffer's subsequent work was done in its facility. His canon contains a unique blend of philosophical dramas and satirical comedies. The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964) examines the conquest and murder of Atahuallpa by Peru's conquistador Francisco Pizarro, while Black Comedy (1965) examines a group of characters' antics in a pitch-black room, although the room is flooded with light.
Equus (1973) was a winner of the 1975 Tony Award for Best Play as well as the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. Equus ran for over 1,000 performances on Broadway, a journey into the mind of a seventeen-year-old stableboy who had plunged a spike into the eyes of six horses. It was revived by the Berkshire Theatre Festival in England and 2007, by director Thea Sharrock at London's Gielgud Theatre in February 2007, and on Broadway (in the Sharrock production) in September 2008. The stableboy had to appear naked in the film, which was originally intended for general audiences, and this caused mild controversy.
Shaffer continued his success with Amadeus (1979), which received the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics' Award for London's production. This tells the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and court composer Antonio Salieri, who, after being enraged by the "voice of God" emanating from a "obscene child," sets out to murder his opponent. The show won the 1981 Tony Award for Best Play, and Equus, as well as Equus, ran for more than a thousand performances.
Shaffer produced Lettice and Lovage in 1986, which he was nominated for another Tony Award and for which Smith later received the Tony Award for best actor after three nominations in 1990. Margaret Tyzack was also nominated for best direction of a play at the 1990 Tony Awards, thanks to Lettice and Lovage, and the show was also nominated for best direction of a play.