Equus by Peter Shaffer

Equus, Peter Shaffer’s 1973 play, tells the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man convicted of blinding six horses.
Over the weekend we were lucky enough to catch the touring version at Sheffield’s Lyceum Theatre. The play opened at the National Theatre in 1973 and was subsequently performed all over the [...]



Sean at Community Group Therapy writes about his experiences with T-Mobile’s (badly misnamed) Support Service.

It’s a long post, but, fuelled with rage, it passes quickly and is a wonderful example of how to relate traumatic events with no other aids but writing materials and passion.

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The first and last important rule for the creative writer, then, is that though there may be rules (formulas) for ordinary, easily publishable fiction — imitation fiction — there are no rules for real fiction, any more than there are rules for serious visual art or musical composition. John Gardner

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