Posted on 06/06/2016 9:14:18 AM PDT by Borges
The playwright Sir Peter Shaffer, whose critical and popular successes in the West End and Broadway included Equus, Amadeus, and The Royal Hunt of the Sun, has died aged 90.
His agent, Rupert Lord, said: “He was simply at the end of his life but delighted to have been able to celebrate his 90th birthday with friends and then, I think, decided it was time.”
The National Theatre, which staged the world premieres of many of his plays, and was already planning the first revival of Amadeus at the theatre since it opened there in 1979, described him as “an extraordinary writer”.
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I suppose since he is a white Play-write his works will be banned by the liberal New England colleges in their courses?
Classical Ping
Perhaps if I saw it on stage, I might feel differently.
Nah.
It’s unfortunate he misrepresented Antonio Salieri as a villain in “Amadeus.” RIP.
RIP. That’s a pretty good corpus for any playwright.
I think in the play Equus the main character has sex or simulated sex with a horse, so it will be a big hit in academia.
Equus is the only movie I got up and walked out on.
He didn’t have sex with the horse. But things did get weird with a girl in the stables.
It was a terrible film of a good play.
Maybe they were just horsing around.
I say neigh.
Amadeus is a good play and the film adaptation was great. The trouble is, too many people watched it thinking that it was a history lesson rather than a work of fiction. That's the audience's fault, not the writer or filmmaker's.
In reality, Salieri and Mozart got along fairly well. The person who commissioned the Requiem Mass from Mozart did indeed try to steal the work and take credit for it after Mozart's death, but that man was Count von Walzeg, not Salieri.
Saleri went on to teach Beethoven and was saught out by Beethoven for many many years after Beethoven became famous.
He also taught a very young Franz Liszt.
Never heard of him...
Wiht all th ementions of “Equs” I now have the “Mister Ed” theme stuck in my head...
Wilbur! NO!
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