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

Thu, May 16 @ 7:30pm Fri, May 17 @ 8:00pm New Repertory Theatre presents Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, winner of five Tony Awards — including Best Play. Mush of his work has inspired others – musical versions such as Tchaikovsky's opera which caused me so much trouble and his verse play Mozart and Salieri was the inspiration for Peter Schaffer's Amadeus. AMADEUS (1984, USA, Milos Forman, Peter Shaffer play and screenplay). The winner of the Tony Award for best play and the Oscar for Best Picture, Peter Shaffer's monumental play is part melodrama, part history, part imaginative speculation. Set in 18th-century Vienna, Amadeus portrays the young composer as seen through the eyes of his jealous rival, composer Antonio Salieri. If revisions weren't intimidating enough, Peter Shaffer certainly raises the bar. But why on I'm glad to learn more about Salieri whose reputation was surely tarnished by Peter Shaffer's loose approach to the facts. Peter Shaffer's play (and later film) Amadeus has given many viewers the impression that Mozart was an immature, selfish brat who happened to possess great genius. But the shadow of the movie AMADEUS is a long one, and there is hardly a time when I go to speak about my novel that someone does not ask if Wolfgang Amadé Mozart was really just a funny little man in a white wig. Perhaps the most important thing to know about Peter Shaffer's film adaptation of his own stage-play “Amadeus” is that it's a work of fiction, not a biography. Well, no; he was a In the film and play we have the skill of a historical novelist or, in this case, a historical playwright. Amadeus is a 1979 stage play written by Peter Shaffer, adapted into a film in 1984. I really admire the way he doesn't get so attached to his early drafts that he is able to cut out entire chunks and re-write and re-write and re-write. Struggling with Genius: AMADEUS | The New England Theatre GeekDirector Jim Petosa ;s staging of Peter Shaffer ;s Tony-winning script never plays it safe. Whilst my father prayed earnestly to God to protect commerce, I would offer up secretly the proudest prayer a boy could think of. One of the orchestra blogs I admire has delved into the matter of Mozartian Myths, a subject which inevitably turns to the matter of Peter Shaffer's (and in this case Milos Forman's) Amadeus.