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...Alan Bennett's play The Madness of George III opened last Friday at the Loeb Mainstage, in front of an audience eager if not for serious dramatic performance, then at least for a memorable show. The production did not disappoint the auteurs of either. Director Fred Hood managed a large and excellent cast almost as well as he did the mainstage, fulfilling his promise of "total theater." The Madness of George III was planned in the grandiose style of a Shakespearean production; it achieved this aim almost too well, with the result that it had some trouble retaining the delicate...
...endlessly about artists no one else has heard of (Monday Michiru! Full Intention!). At the same time Soman commented that "In the Mix" sounds very British in tone (and indeed, it would be British in spelling if not for the efforts of the proofers on the Crimson staff-thanks Alan et al), and apparently no one in America is listening to British music anymore, at least according to George Michael. So really I have no idea if my column is speaking to anyone...
Last weekend the Loeb Drama Center was a place of madness. Literally. With Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III opening on the Mainstage and Lanie Robertson's The Insanity of Mary Girard in the Ex, aberrations of the mind took center stage at Harvard. Insanity poses an interesting dramatic problem. As Alan Bennett admits in his preface to The Madness of George III, a loss of sanity usually entails a loss of dramatic action...
...Alan Bennett's comedy or royal maladies, The Madness of George III, finishes its run on the Loeb Mainstage this weekend. Se the review on today's page for more information...
...know the calculus by now. A slowing economy is just what Greenspan wanted, because it keeps inflation at bay. And that means in December, with a suspenseful spring ahead, Uncle Alan will probably spare the markets another interest-rate hike. Which means cheaper money, more corporate investment - the whole bag of tricks that these markets love so well...