Peter Shaffer wanted to make elaborate theatre " and he succeeded by Mark Lawson

The playwright was a commercial success, but his works could only have been created in subsidised venuesPeter Shaffer obituaryFew writers achieve the lucrative double of writing an international hit play that becomes a big-budget movie. Remarkably, though, Peter Shaffer achieved the feat in three successive decades: with The Royal Hunt of the Sun in the 1960s, Equus in the 70s and Amadeus in the 80s. Amadeus became o…

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