Peter Shaffer — English Playwright born on May 15, 1926,

Sir Peter Levin Shaffer, CBE, is an English playwright and screenwriter of numerous award-winning plays, several of which have been filmed... (wikipedia)

Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that's the sole advice I've got to give you.' It's the same in playwriting. Don't theorise about it. Do it.
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.
You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.
In London, 'Equus' caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists.
We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.