Item 161 - Letter from Michael Higgins

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SHAF/B/10/1/161

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Letter from Michael Higgins

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  • 7 Jan. 1976 (Creation)

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2 sheets, 1 env.

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Shaffer, Sir Peter Levin (1926-2016), knight, playwright
(1926-2016)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Describes a sense of detachment he feels every so often on stage and a resulting understanding that he has come to in over 500 performances of 'Equus': that a play is part of the earth 'with all its tearing and screaming and pounding' but that this is just man's way of looking for release into a 'more beautiful satisfactory earth'; he laughs because 'some people go into the theatre at night to see and experience what has been ripped out of the body' during the day.

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