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
The World of Suzie Wong (play) The World of Suzie Wong (play) The World of Suzie Wong is an award-winning 1958-premiered stage play, adapted from the eponymous 1957 novel by Richard Mason, "The World of Suzie Wong". The play was in turn adapted into the 1960 Hollywood British-American feature film "The World of Suzie Wong". The novel was adapted into a play by playwright Paul Osborn. It is one of the major elements of the Suzie Wong franchise. The play dramatizes the story of the eponymous Richard Mason novel, "The World of Suzie Wong", upon which it is based. The play opened for the 1958-1959 Broadway