Word: shaffers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both of Peter Shaffer's new one-act comedies, The Private Ear and The Public Eye, are failures in spite of generally good performances and the direction of Peter Wood. The Private Ear fails because it is a blatantly uninteresting and unfunny play. The Public Eye fails, though less completely, because it bungles its chance to exploit an amusing situation and a potentially fascinating trio of characters...
...London, is about an old actress facing assorted personal problems, including a husband who turns up after a 29-year absence, and stars Margaret Leighton (January). Greatly popular on the West End last year were The Private Ear and The Public Eye-two thematically related one-acters by Peter Shaffer, author of Five Finger Exercise (Oct. 9). Eric Portman stars in a British sex comedy called All in Good Time (Nov. 23). And Claudette Colbert and Cyril Ritchard open Sept. 18 in The Irregular Verb to Love, about a sweet London lady who keeps blowing up furrier shops because...
Dunster: Peter S. Britell, Alfred L. Goldberg, Norman J. Levitt, Lance Morrow, Cary L. Robertson, Seth A. Shaffer, Robert E. Sloane...
Dunster scoring is generally light, but the defense sparked by the big kicks of fullbacks Tony Olivieri and Tod Baker and the hustle of center halfback Andy Shaffer has managed to stave off late scoring threats...
Five Finger Exercise. A competent film version of Peter Shaffer's prizewinning play about a family that has everything money can buy-including unhappiness...