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Tag: Peter Firth

Equus

| July 29, 2013

Memorabilia Available   Equus by Peter Shaffer Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious/sexual fascination with horses.[1] Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old who blinded […]

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Amadeus

| July 23, 2013

Memorabilia Available   Amadeus   by Peter Shaffer     It is based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, highly fictionalized. Amadeus was first performed in 1979. It was inspired by Mozart and Salieri, a short play by Aleksandr Pushkin which was later adapted into an opera of the […]

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