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Written by Peter Shaffer...
...style set-design and costumes, careful musical synchronization, and nearly 30 scene changes--there is also a film version fresh in everyone's minds; unfair comparisons would be very easy to make. But director Nicholas Weir silences the doubters with a powerful show, one that highlights all of playwright Shaffer's wickedly good language...
Director Weir has done a fine job of dealing with the multiple demands of the play. With great wisdom, he has been extremely faithful to both the words and the ingenious stage directions of Shaffer's script. Furthermore, the costumes and set-design are convincing and even the taped musical excerpts are only slightly disorienting. All in all, a night with Amadeus is a night full of delights, ironic and otherwise...
David Letterman, late-night comedian. Imagine Stupid Overseer Tricks or Deans You Want to See Dropped from a Five Story Tower. Paul Shaffer could shape up the band (and maybe write a hip version of 10,000 Men of Harvard), Marv Albert could hand out the Albert Tenure Achievement Awards and Chris Elliot could play the Dean-of-Students...
...companion piece the ICA is showing Witness to War, Deborah Shaffer's 30-minute study of Dr. Charlie Clements, a former U.S. pilot in Vietnam who has had a conversion to Quakerism and now does medical relief work in the shell-stormed hills outside San Salvador. The quick-paced film captures the Sturm und Drang of life at the front lines, cutting throughout to interviews of Clements's friends, high school snapshots, and snippets of Clements raising funds and consciousness back home in America. In a brilliant device, Clements sits in his present-day living room and reads...