Composers and their stage works 

Peter (Levin) Shaffer

Born in Liverpool, Merseyside, 15 May 1926

Stage Works

  1. Five Finger Exercise (produced 1958). 1958.
  2. The Private Ear, and The Public Eye (produced 1962). 1962.
  3. Merry Roosters' Panto, music and lyrics by Stanley Myers and Steven Vinaver (produced 1963; as It's about Cinderella, produced 1969).
  4. Sketch in The Establishment (produced 1963).
  5. The Royal Hunt of the Sun: A Play Concerning the Conquest of Peru (produced 1964). 1965.
  6. Black Comedy (produced 1965).
  7. White Lies (produced 1967).1967; as White Liars (produced 1968), 1967; revised version (produced 1976), 1976.
  8. Shrivings (as The Battle of Shrivings, produced 1970; revised version, as Shrivings, produced 1975). 1974;
  9. Equus (produced 1973). 1973;
  10. Amadeus (produced 1979). 1980; revised version (produced 1980), 1981.
  11. Black Mischief (produced 1983).
  12. Yonadab (produced 1985). Revised version 1989.
  13. Lettice and Lovage (produced 1987; revised version, produced 1988). 1988;
  14. Whom Do I Have the Honour of Addressing? (broadcast 1989). 1990.
  15. The Gift of the Gorgon (produced 1992). 1993.

Screenplays:

  1. Lord of the Flies, with Peter Brook, 1963;
  2. The Public Eye (Follow Me!), 1972;
  3. Equus, 1977;
  4. Amadeus, 1984.

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