Mozart's Zaide by Michael Symmons Roberts | Arts

Faced with the challenge of completing an unfinished Mozart libretto about violent oppression, Michael Symmons Roberts chose to return to the themes of forgiveness and redemptionIn David Hare's film, Wetherby, a disturbed young man, John Morgan, finds his way into a dinner party uninvited, everyone thinking he is someone else's guest. The conversation turns to morality, and Morgan brings the table to silence with his odd, unsettling declaration that: "I only know goodness and anger and revenge a...

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