Equus (play) Equus (play) 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 fascination with horses. Shaffer was inspired to write "Equus" when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old who blinded six horses in a small town near Suffolk. He set out to construct a fictional account of what might have caused the incident, without knowing any of the details of the crime. The play's action is something of a detective story, involving the attempts of the child psychiatrist Dr. Martin
Peter Biziou Brian", "Time Bandits" and "Pink Floyd - The Wall". Biziou won the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Alan Parker's film "Mississippi Burning". He received a further BAFTA nomination for Peter Weir's film "The Truman Show". Peter Biziou Peter Biziou BSC (born 8 August 1944 in Wales) is a British cinematographer. Peter Biziou is the son of special effects cameraman and cinematographer Leon Bijou best known for shooting "Foxes" in 1980 . He began his career in the mid-1960s where he worked on short films by Norman J. Warren and Robert Freeman. In 1973 he began his collaboration with