Peter Shaffer 1990. "Lettice and Lovage" also enabled Margaret Tyzack to win the award for best featured actress, and the production was nominated for best direction of a play, at the 1990 Tony Awards. Several of Shaffer's plays have been adapted to film, including "Five Finger Exercise" (1962), "The Royal Hunt of the Sun" (1969), "The Public Eye" (1962), from which he adapted the 1972 film "Follow Me!" (1972), "Equus" (1977), and "Amadeus" (1984), which won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture. Shaffer received two Academy Award nominations for adapting his plays "Equus" and "Amadeus" for the big screen. For writing the
Strang, Isle of Man Strang, Isle of Man Strang is a hamlet on the Isle of Man. It lies just outside Douglas, the main town on the island, and also contains the island's only general hospital. The hospital was built on the site of a former asylum. The land for the asylum was purchased in 1862 and the building was completed in 1868. The numbers of patients steadily increased as can be seen from the table below: Strang is almost joined to Douglas by the A1 road. The hamlet has no church or chapel, but does lie near a bigger village which does have