Amadeus
Round Top Center, Beneficent Church
Providence, RI
Elemental Theatre Collective and Big Table Productions presents "Amadeus" by Peter Shaffer. The play first produced in 1979 was the winner of the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award for the London production. It won the 1981 Tony Award for Best Play and ran for more than 1000 performances. "Amadeus" tells the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and court composer Antonio Salieri who, overcome with jealousy at hearing the "voice of God" coming from an "obscene child," sets out to destroy his rival. When the disgruntled Salieri vows to destroy Gods creation, the tables are set for an epic battle of trust and betrayal, love and blinding hatred.
Elemental brings this play to Beneficent Church in downtown Providence, RI. Setting the piece in a sacred space was absolutely essential, says director Alexander Platt. Performing in Gods house makes the play much more dangerous. Starting a war with God is one thing; starting a war with God in a church is entirely another.
Instead of the usual cast of fifteen actors and elaborate recorded sound, the play will be performed with six actors and a selected group of live classical musicians. Salieri and Mozart are each played by a single actor, and four Ensemble actors perform the thirteen other roles. We wanted to boil the play down to its barest elements, explains Platt. We also felt that because music was one of the most important elements, we didnt want to just hear the music we wanted to feel it. And the only way to do that is to have the music being performed in the room with the audience. Platt has been working with Joseph Amante, Director of Choral Activities at CCRI, to adapt the music required by the play into a score for chamber instruments and solo vocalists.
The cast features Tanya Anderson,Phillipe Bowgen, DArcy Dersham, Bryan Kimmelman, Kelly Seigh and Max Vogler. Vogler, who graduated from Trinity Rep Conservatory, is a New York-based actor returning to Rhode Island to play the lead role of Salieri. He is joined onstage by fellow Conservatory graduates and Elemental actors Anderson, Dersham and Seigh. Kimmelman, who moved to Providence a year ago and has already been seen in several productions, is playing Mozart. Bowgen is a student at the Trinity Rep/Brown Consortium, and is cast as Orsini-Rosenberg.
Note: Limited parking is available
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Sales have ended for this event. Tickets may still be available at the door.
Tickets are available at the door on a cash or check basis. Please call 401-585-0468 for day of performance availability |
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| First: | Thursday Oct 29, 2009 7:00 PM | | Last: | Sunday Nov 22, 2009 3:00 PM |
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Round Top Center, Beneficent Church
300 Weybosset St
Providence, RI 02903
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