Peter Shaffer
Paperback | Pages: 160 pages Rating: 4.2 | 15748 Users | 258 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Amadeus |
| ISBN: | 0060935499 (ISBN13: 9780060935498) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ambition and jealousyall set to music. Devout court composer Antonio Salieri plots against his rival, the dissolute but supremely talented Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. How far will Salieri go to achieve the fame that Mozart disregards? The 1981 Tony Award winner for Best Play. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Steven Brand as Baron van Swieten James Callis as Mozart Michael Emerson as Salieri Darren Richardson as Venticello 2 Alan Shearman as Count Orsini-Rosenberg Mark Jude Sullivan as Venticello 1 Simon Templeman as Joseph II Brian Tichnell as Count Johann Kilian Von Strack Jocelyn Towne as Constanze Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in September of 2016.Be Specific About Epithetical Books Amadeus
| Title | : | Amadeus |
| Author | : | Peter Shaffer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 160 pages |
| Published | : | August 7th 2001 by Harper Perennial (first published 1979) |
| Categories | : | Plays. Drama. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Music. Theatre. Classics |
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Ratings: 4.2 From 15748 Users | 258 ReviewsCommentary Epithetical Books Amadeus
My appreciation of Milos Forman certainly grew upon reading this play. Certainly Loves of a Blonde is a milestone in the Czech New Wave but his apparent four month involvement with Peter Shaffer resulted in something new, a probing course elevating Amadeus above the coloratura of the stage play. I think I would have preferred the Pinter vision of Mozart, especially the ragged vaudeville years with nary a Freemason in sight.Bettie's Books
I watched the movie when it first came out, so I was familiar with this story. It is a fictionalized account of the death of Mozart. I read this play in one sitting, I could not out it down. It tells the story of envy one man had for a true genius of music. The envy of Mozart's talent drove Salieri to madness. This play is one I would love to see performed live.
interesting to compare to film-- never saw on stage. I really liked introduction by Peter Hall, which resonates beyond this particular work: "Shaffer's play....looks unblinkingly at the rest of us, who are neither blessed nor cursed (like Mozart) with genius. It analyzes with wit and compassion how desperately ordinary most of us are. For however talented we may secretly think ourselves to be, we remain in the great scheme of things relative mediocrities. It is only genius-- that rarest and most
I know the written play wasn't a final complete work, it's suppose to produce on the theatre and got its final form, but so many playwrights write pieces of art in the play form, so i usually evaluate any written play as a final work and only the element "what challenges the play provide to the directors and actors" is related to post-written play production.In this play the only advantage of it is this only element, the play could be a good play on the theatre - and it was according to the
Peter Shafer was not so famous playwright. However, he has written so many pays that provide him critical acclaim among the intellectuals. Amadeus is a kind of psychological drama. He has mastery over playing with words. That's why he has created so many plays those are full of powerful dialogues.
Such rich writing and depth of personality insights from Shaffer's script, which I've enjoyed as a London stage productions and from reading. Fortunately I can also recommend Malkovich's film Amadeus; he had the sense to avoid that usual Hollywood saccharine.
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