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Amadeus, National Theatre at Home review " wild dance at the edges of sanity by Rachel Halliburton

As Mozart, Adam Gillen erupts onto the stage as a Tourette's tornado It is 41 years since Peter Shaffer ripped off Mozart's respectable façade to reveal a foul-mouthed verbally incontinent child-man with no more ability to control his behaviour than his genius. Inspired by a short story by Alexander Pushkin that put forward the theory that Salieri murdered Mozart, he fleshed out bare biographical bones with virtuo…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:24AM on July 17, 2020

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