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Amadeus

1/10/1998

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By Peter Shaffer
Directed by Peter Meikle

Season: 1 - 17 Oct 1998

Our 50th Anniversary Production.

Elderly Salieri looks back over his successful career as Court Composer, his hatred of Mozart and how he conceived and executed the young composer's demise.  The myth of the unappreciated genius who fought a losing and ultimately fatal battle against a fickle public and a Viennese Court rife with intrigue took root shortly after Mozart died, and has proven stubbornly resistant to correction ever since.

Amadeus is operatic - vast - so much more than a simple story. lt is also a play about self confrontation.  ln this script Shaffer presents a masterpiece of drama which reveals deep truths about the human condition. A supreme mystery about one loved by God and the other for whom God had, inexplicably, "no regard".

It is a play staged to music, where the rhythms and energy of the cast will present a spectacular fusion which embodies the very essence of live theatre

Cast:
​Mozart - Stephen Austin
Salieri - Barry Grant
Constanze - Trish Purcell
Rosenberg - Matthew Gillanders
Emperor - John Howden
Van Swieten - David Mann
Katherina - Lynley McFaull
Von Strack - Rob Scott
Venticelli -  Wendy Griffiths, Rachel Henderson, Angela Huggins, Mary Image, Marilyn Ollett, Kent Prusas
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