Latest posts tagged with #PeterShaffer on Bluesky
My 174 Favorite Films:
47. Amadeus (1984). Historical drama/Comedy.
Written by Peter Shaffer.
Directed by Miloš Forman.
Starring F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce.
#filmsky #stageplay #mozart #petershaffer #milosforman #classic #oscars
It's the play-- not the movie- telling the story of Salieri and Mozart-- click the link to read the preview in the LA edition of Picture This Post--
#PasadenaPlayhouse #LATheater #PictureThisPostTheater #Mozart #ClassicalMusic #PeterShaffer #DarkoTresnjak #KenajuanBentley #JaredAndrewBybee
Forty-one years ago today, everything they heard was true in London cinemas… #Amadeus #1980s #film #films #MilosForman #PeterShaffer #TomHulce #FMurrayAbraham #ElizabethBerridge #Mozart #WolfgangAmadeusMozart
Mozart gets the fame but his rival---- is the real center of this Steppenwolf production. Click the link to read the Picture This Post preview--
@steppenwolfthtr.bsky.social #Mozart #Salieri #PeterShaffer @robertfalls.bsky.social #PictureThisPostTheater #ChicagoTheater #DavidDarrow #IanBarford
#MenierChocolateFactory announces new London season
🔗 www.westendtheatre.com/312713/news/...
#FallenAngels by #NoëlCoward, directed by #ChristopherLuscombe (21 Nov-21 Feb)
#LindsayPosner directs:
#TheHolyRosenbergs by #RyanCraig (27 Feb-2 May)
#Equus by #PeterShaffer (8 May-27 Jun)
#AntonioSalieri was born #OnThisDay in 1750; #PeterShaffer cast him as a jealous rival who had #WolfgangAmadeusMozart poisoned but that's pure fiction & there's no evidence Salieri even realized how mediocre he was as depicted here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYHJ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio...
For it's 40th Anniversary, #HOMEmcr is screening #MilošForman directed period biographical drama #Amadeus - which #PeterShaffer adapted from their stage play, itself was based on #AlexanderPushkin 's 1830 #MozartᴬᴺᴰSalieri - with #FMurrayAbraham and #TomHulce playing the lead roles.
Good morning #booksky! 🌞
🔴 1973 Peter Shaffer's musical "Equus" premieres in London
🔴 2016 Liz Moore’s The Unseen World is published
#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #July26 #PeterShaffer #LizMoore
“I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends - and I from Legends created only the ordinary!” (Amadeus)
✒️Sir #PeterShaffer, English playwright (Equus), #DOTD 6 June 2016. #Theatre
Claudio Monteverdi (1567), Clemens Metternich (1773), L. Frank Baum (1856), Richard J. Daley (1902), J, Paul A. Samuelson (1915), Enrico Berlinguer (1922), #PeterShaffer (1926), Madeleine Albright (1937), Roger Ailes (1940) & Mohammed El Kurd (1998) were born #OnThisDay...
“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
✒️ #PeterShaffer, English playwright (Equus, Amadeus), twin brother of Anthony, was #BOTD 15 May 1926. #Theatre #Literature
I think that my wife likes this film. 😂
#amadeus #amadeusmovie #milosforeman #petershaffer #fmurrsyabraham
Today's Notable Quotable . . .l
#NotableQuotable #amadeus #petershaffer #Theatre #quotes #quoteoftheday #Play #Movie
𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖒𝖆𝖓... 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖒𝖚𝖘𝖎𝖈... 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖒𝖆𝖉𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖘... 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖒𝖚𝖗𝖉𝖊𝖗... 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖒𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊...
"Amadeus" (1984)
#MilošForman #PeterShaffer
youtu.be/ZQV9yySOmhs
"The trouble is if you don't spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you"~Peter Shaffer
Claudio Monteverdi (1567), Clemens Metternich (1773), L. Frank Baum (1856), Katherine Anne Porter (1890), Richard J. Daley (1902), #PeterShaffer (1926), Madeleine Albright (1937), Roger Ailes (1940) & Mohammed El Kurd (1998) were born #OnThisDay...
RIP #PeterShaffer. AMADEUS is a movie whose historical inaccuracy is only exceeded by its greatness.
