“Art and literature are my surrogate religions.” In a Gerhard Richter moment, Sir Peter Shaffer offered this statement to the Guardian’s Michael Billington in 2006, effectively placing himself among the playwrights who wear or have worn their creative codes like cassocks. The striking mark of Equus—the skirt of his particular code, represented by the above quote—on the cinema has faded (blame to Sydney Lumet) over … Continue reading The Admirer and His Demons: Milos Forman’s Adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus