Shaffer
Britishnoun
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Shaffer, whose plays include “Equus,” “The Royal Hunt of the Sun” and “Black Comedy,” is drawn to existential reckonings, and in “Amadeus” he’s written his cris de coeur on the immorality of the universe.
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Shaffer kept revising the play, even after the avalanche of accolades for the London and New York premieres.
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But like Salieri, Shaffer was all too aware that popularity isn’t the same thing as greatness.
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Shaffer succeeds in this regard, but the wordy play grows cumbersome in its final explanatory stages.
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The Venticelli, the chorus-like “purveyors of fact, rumor and gossip throughout the play,” according to Shaffer, are played by Jennifer Chang and Hilary Ward with timeless vibrancy.
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