Word: shaffers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most promising comedies, on paper anyway, will be black, British or both. One, by Peter Shaffer (The Royal Hunt of the Sun), is actually called Black Comedy. Noel Coward will play in Suite in Three Keys, a triple bill of his own works, and Sir Ralph Richardson will be seen either in Shaw's You Never Can Tell, Sheridan's The Rivals, or both. Additional foreign works include the 1966 London critics' prize-winning The Killing of Sister George, the tale of a disturbed soap-opera star with an unsavory private life; The Loves of Cass McGuire...
...genius who gave the world Tammy and a yock-pile of fill'ems starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day, has actually produced an intelligent picture at last. Based on the first half of The Private Ear-The Public Eye, a 1963 Broadway hit by Britain's Peter Shaffer, The Pad is laid out as a parable of friendship. Ted (James Farentino), who considers himself God's gift to the working girl, is a crude dude with a smile like a moonlit mackerel and a little black book that would choke a billy-goat. Bob (Brian Bedford...
...ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN. A pantomimic interpretation of the Spanish conquistadors ascending the Andes and the gorgeously costumed array of conquered Peruvians make a dazzling wrapping, but cannot hide the dramatic hollowness of Peter Shaffer's historical drama...
...ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN. Brilliant plumage and clever choreography give this historical drama the shifting, colorful splendor of a kaleidoscope, but Playwright Peter Shaffer fails to inform the story of Conquistador Pizarro in Peru with a coherent dramatic or philosophical content...
...ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN. Peter Shaffer's historical drama tosses a pebble of thought into a sea of spectacle. Although the resulting ripples are small, they are enough to give Christopher Plummer an opportunity to show consummate skill in playing a tortured Pizarro searching for Peruvian treasure and a rebirth of faith...