Peter Shaffer 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 show moved to Broadway it won the 1981 Tony Award for Best Play and, like "Equus", ran for more than a thousand performances. After the success of "Amadeus", Shaffer wrote the play "Lettice and Lovage" specifically for Dame Maggie Smith in 1986, for which he was nominated for another Tony Award and Dame Maggie Smith eventually won the Tony Award for best actress after three nominations in
AWGIE Award for Stage AWGIE Award for Stage The AWGIE Award for Stage is awarded by the Australian Writers' Guild at the annual AWGIE Awards for Australian performance writing. The award is for the playscript. To be eligible, the play must have had its first professional production (as distinct from reading) in the previous year. David Williamson has received the award five times, over the period 1972 to 1988. Andrew Bovell has also won five times (once jointly), over the period 1997 to 2014. Hannie Rayson, Nick Enright and Patricia Cornelius have all won three times. Award recipients are: Note: [*] indicates where the