Mozart
Salieri
PETER SHAFFER
Opening sceneSavage whispers fill the theatre.
WHISPERERS
Salieri …..Salieri …..Salieri
Two middle aged gentlemen hurry in from either side. They speak rapidly
V1
I don’t believe it
V2
I don’t believe it
WHISPERERS
Salieri …..Salieri …..Salieri
V1
They say
V2
I hear
V1
I hear
V2
They say
V1 and V2
I don’t believe it
V1
The whole city is talking
V2
You hear it all over
V1
The café
V2
The operaV1 The prater
V2
The gutter
V1
But why now
V2
After so long
V1
Thirty two years
V1 and V2I
don’t believe it
WHISPERERS
Salieri …..Salieri …..Salieri
V1
They say he shouts it out all day
V2
I hear he cries it out all night
V1
Stays in his apartment
V2
Never goes out
V1
Not for a year now
V2
Longer…. Longer…
V1
Must be seventy
V2
Older….older…..
V1
Antonio Salieri
V2
The famous musician
V1
Shouting it aloud
V2
Crying it aloud
V1
Impossible
V2
Incredible
V1
I don’t believe it
V2
I don’t believe it
WHISPERERS
Salieri …..Salieri …..Salieri
V1
What sins he shouts
V2
What horrors have you heard?
V1
What does he cry?
SALIERI(In a great cry)Mozart……Mozart………
V1
Pardon Mozart….
V2
Pardon your assassin…….
V1
Thirty two years ago
V2
When Mozart was dying
V1
He claimed he’d been poisoned
V2
Some said he accused a man
V1
Some said that man was Salieri
V1
But no one believed it
V2
After thirty two years
V1
What do you think?
V2
What do you think?
V1
I don’t believe it
V2
I don’t believe it
WHISPERERS
Salieri …..Salieri …..Salieri
V1 and V2 remain, on either side of the stage. We see a man of seventy in an old stained dressing gown with an old turban on his head. He rises and squints at the audience, as it trying to see it.
WHISPERERS
Antonio SalieriSalieri …..Salieri …..Salieri
Antonio SalieriSalieri …..Salieri …..Salieri
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