Amadeus by Peter Shaffer6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() He returned it the next day, having completely rewritten his answers in longhand. Shaffer asked if he could see what I wrote before it was published. (What can I say? I was young and full of myself then. Shaffer, who died Sunday at age 90, was charming, cheerfully answering my pretentious questions about “epic theater,” “the function of the critic,” and “the Apollonian and Dionysian themes” I had discerned in his work. ![]() ![]() And I loved the movie “Amadeus,” even though when I saw it in 1984 I had never heard a Mozart concerto in my life. I’d been a fan of Shaffer’s plays ever since I read - and was bowled over by - “Equus” in high school. I first interviewed Peter Shaffer in 1990 when he was about to open his play “Lettice and Lovage,” starring a delightfully daffy Maggie Smith, on Broadway. ![]()
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