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3 days agoMichael Sheen will return to the West End to star in 'Amadeus'
Michael Sheen becomes the first major actor to play both lead roles in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus.
And so, my friends, to the new six-part drama Amadeus, about the life, death and music of Wolfgang A Mozart, one of the defining geniuses of the last 1,000 years of western history. Co-creators Joe Barton and Julian Farino have retained parts of Peter Shaffer's 1979 play and the 1984 film starring Tom Hulce as Mozart and F Murray Abraham as his rival composer Antonio Salieri, reworked them into lesser forms, and surrounded them with lesser flat, airless, banal scenes.