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...Unprecedented (BBC iPlayer) Leading actors — Rory Kinnear, Monica Dolan, Paterson Joseph and Gemma Arterton among them — star in these short new plays by top playwrights, commissioned by Headlong theatre...
...Califano, attorney, Washington, DC, June 8 1976; John deButts, chairman, AT&T, New York, May 5 1976; César Chávez, organiser, United Farm Workers, Keene, California, June 27 1976; Charles Shaffer, attorney...
...While the cloth-eared Joseph II (a very enjoyable Matthew Spencer) complains of “too many notes” and Mozart the man bulldozes through polite society, the orchestra picks up works that now reach across time...
...This is Mozart at one with his portrait in Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus; my curiosity is whether Leitgeb played better as a result....
...The sumptuous frivolity of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s movie has been replaced, with an hour’s loss of time, by a chamber film as dank, echoey and leading nowhere as that description suggests....
...Shaffer’s Atahuallpa believes he is divine, but Joseph makes that seem merely a form of camp....
...Joseph II’s friendly advice to Mozart - as presented in Peter Shaffer’s screenplay for the film Amadeus - provokes harsh laughter from any writer who has dealt with the editor’s pen....
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