TITLE: Amadeus AUTHOR: Peter Shaffer ISBN-13: 978-0-141-18889-8 _____________________ DESCRIPTION: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of eighteenth-century Vienna doesn’t recognize his talents - only Antonio Salieri, the Co...
I first saw this in the movie version, which featured Richard Burton chewing through the role of the psychiatrist, about 10 or 12 years ago. I must say that after reading a version wherein the original staging is described, I can't help but feel the filmmakers made a major mistake trying to make the...
There now? Have I gotten your attention? Because half-naked - or even 100% naked - Daniel Radcliffe is not a reason to read Equus. The mythology, the fantastic mythology, cobbled together from sexual need, region, and the lust for the forbidden is. Because the main character in this stor...
bookshelves: autumn-2012, tbr-busting-2012, play-dramatisation, suffolk, nazi-related Read from September 23, 2009 to October 13, 2012 ** spoiler alert ** In 1958 this became Shaffer's first big success in the theatre. The play ran for nearly two years at the Comedy Theatre in London, was presen...
This play centres on Pizarro, who leads an army of Spanish Conquistadors to Peru. The soldiers claim to be "huntsmen of God". But what are they really hunting?
bookshelves: winter-20102011, play-dramatisation, re-read, music, revenge, biography, historical-fiction, teh-brillianz Read on January 02, 2011, read count: 4 A BBC recording with Paul Scofield as Salieri, Simon Callow as Mozart and Felicity Kendal as Constanza. It doesn't get much better than ...
Review: Alan Strang is a seventeen year old who has blinded six horses with a metal spike. After the magistrate pulled a few strings, he ends up in a psychiatric hospital, being treated by Doctor Martin Drysart. As well as learning the details about the events leading up to the incident, Drysart wi...
In 1958 this became Shaffer's first big success in the theatre. The play ran for nearly two years at the Comedy Theatre in London, was presented in New York and also filmed. It opened with the following cast:Stanley Harrington played by Roland CulverLouise by Adrienne AllenClive by Brian BedfordPame...
I read this years ago when I was in a Readers Theater group. It was a hilarious experience then, and reading it again now brought back many fun moments. I would have loved to see Maggie Smith play the part of Lettice. In fact, the play was originally written for her!
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