does anyone have any information about the real life event this play was supposedly loosely based on. i have read that the author peter schaffer had heard about a young boy blinding horses and based his play on what he had heard. does anyone know any more about the original (real life) incident?
2007-03-14 09:29:17 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
have already tried wikipedia and there was not enough information about the original incident
2007-03-14 09:33:39 · update #1
www.wikipedia.org
2007-03-14 09:32:15 · answer #1 · answered by FaerieWhings 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and No. I read that Peter Schaffer was passing by some horse stables one day - and the person he was traveling with noted that a stable hand had blinded some of the horses there.
Knowing only that - Peter Schaffer came up with his play.
Twice that I know of - Schaffer has taken some "real life" information - and then built a play around it -using fiction. The other example was Amadeus. Motzart and Saliare (spelled wrong - I think - sorry) both lived and wrote music at the same time - in the same place - and Saliare became institutionalized. That's the fact - and then a LOT of the play was fiction.
Just found this on the net...
http://www.equustheplay.com/home/index.php
As you will see - it was just a story he heard - and there were not really a lot of facts. All the person who told the story knew was that some horses - somewhere - were blinded by a stable boy.
2007-03-14 17:45:07 · answer #2 · answered by liddabet 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Playwrite's notes on the script I had said it was a newpaper headline he read during a train ride.
2007-03-17 03:20:03 · answer #3 · answered by Irish 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you should probably ask shaffer himself
2007-03-18 15:57:27 · answer #4 · answered by im_loosing_my_mind_1985 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋