Certainly not the most flattering portrait of Mozart... a childish figure with dirty jokes,no sense of formalities or manner, and an obnoxious presence overall. Antonio Salieri, the court composer, is introduced to Mozart, the vehicle in which God has a voice, and is utterly disgusted. Salieri has committed himself to living an ethical life in complete devotion to God, until he sees what God has delivered him: a child-man genius capable of composing the most beautiful music he has ever heard. Salieri gives up his moral life to combat vengefully against this unjust God, doing all in his power to prevent Mozart, and thus God, from climbing the steps of the music world, ultimately sending him to his own demise. What is the rationality and meaning of life if God should choose such a creature to be his vehicle? In this lofty and ambitious play, set what feels like a classic Greek tragedy structure of fatalism, Shaffer sets to tackle themes of divinity, legacy, and morality in a showdown between God and Man, mortal and immortal. we are left wondering how we are all will be remembered for our time on earth and how that memory ages, and in the case of Salieri, fades.