Synopsis
Michael Berkeley talks to Peter Shaffer , one of the most distinguished British playwrights of our time, whose successes include Equus, The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Amadeus. His choices focus on the stage and include duets from Verdi's Otello and Rossini's La Cenerentola, and Sir John Gielgud reading the deposition scene from Shakespeare's Richard II. But there is also instrumental music by Mozart and Mendelssohn, a Handel birthday ode sung by Alfred Deller , and an excerpt from Britten's Holy Sonnets of John Donne.
Equus | Part 4
Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist, is asked by a local magistrate to take on an unusual case. He soon finds himself in the midst of a nightmare - his patient is a 17-year-old boy who has blinded six horses with a metal spike.
Equus | Part 3
Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist, is asked by a local magistrate to take on an unusual case. He soon finds himself in the midst of a nightmare - his patient is a 17-year-old boy who has blinded six horses with a metal spike.