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Amadeus: A Play by Peter Shaffer Peter Shaffer
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

€�Mediocrity is everywhere” pronounces Peter Shaffer in the final moments of Amadeus. Inspired from a short 1830 play by Alexander Pushkin called Mozart and Salieri, Amadeus, by British playwright Peter Shaffer, was first performed in 1979. I fully blame Peter Shaffer for my want to be a man. By Christy Gallo | June 26, 2012. This led to Alexander Pushkin's poetic study of envy, Mozart and Salieri, written in 1830, which fed into Peter Shaffer's 1979 play, Amadeus. Being in our current production of Shaffer's EQUUS, I get the tantalizing opportunity to watch two brilliant, local actors play roles that I will never play. Peter Shaffer's Tony-award winning drama Amadeus will open the 39th summer season at the Oak Park Festival Theatre on June 15, 2013 at 8:00pm in Austin Gardens, 167 Forest Avenue The winner of both the Drama Desk and Tony awards for Best Play when it was produced on Broadway in 1981, Amadeus tells the story of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as told through the eyes of his confessed murderer, Court Composer Antonio Salieri. Milos Forman's brilliant adaptation of Peter Shaffer's Tony award-winning play, “Amadeus” is a fictionalized account of the last days of composer Antonio Salieri (F. That Salieri stooped to kill Mozart is the fiction created by the playwright Peter Shaffer. Will.Dickey@Jacksonville.com Bill Ratliff (left) as Antonio Salieri and Erik DeCicco as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Peter Shaffer's play "Amadeus.". Friday, March 8, Shamblin Theater hosted the opening night for Blackbird Theater's production of Amadeus. Damn you, Haden We watch Salieri's enthusiasm to meet this sophisticated, elegant new composer wither under the observance of Mozart's whimsy in real life as Mozart chases and plays with his love, Constanze. Dickey@Jacksonville.com Bill Ratliff (left) as Antonio Salieri and. As a teenager I discovered the movie version of this play, which had been written some years earlier by the great Peter Shaffer.