Peter Shaffer comedies. "The Royal Hunt of the Sun" (1964) presents the tragic conquest of Peru by the Spanish, while "Black Comedy" (1965) takes a humorous look at the antics of a group of characters feeling their way around a pitch black room — although the stage is actually flooded with light. "Equus" (1973) won Shaffer the 1975 Tony Award for Best Play as well as the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. A journey into the mind of a seventeen-year-old stable-boy who had plunged a spike into the eyes of six horses, "Equus" ran for over 1,000 performances on Broadway. It
Stage-to-film adaptation looking at a real location, finally gradually switching back to the Globe Theatre. On some occasions, playwrights re-write their stage dramas for the screen, as Peter Shaffer did for "Amadeus" (1984), and as Peter Morgan did with "Frost/Nixon" (2008). Shaffer's screenplay made much use of camera movements and scenery that could only be suggested on-stage, as did Morgan with "Frost/Nixon". For "Amadeus", Shaffer even added scenes and heavily revised others for his original creation to take advantage of the medium. The scene in which the ill Mozart dictates his "Requiem Mass" to Salieri, while his imagined music is heard on