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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...
...shown alternatively in a nightgown or a straightjacket, with hair awry. The image of the mad king is an obvious echo of King Lear; the analogy between the two scenarios being played up in this production. In dcor, effects and characterization, Hood manages to convey his vision of Bennett's play as a story as epic and dramatically versatile as King Lear, but twice...
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...
STARTING AT GUARD IN BILL BENNETT'S NIGHTMARE...
...Bennett's The Madness of George III and Peter Shaffer's Amadeus both fit these critera. Shaffer's play was at the origin of Milos Foreman's Academy Award-winning film Amadeus, and has recently been staged on Broadway. Although The Madness of King George III came out as a movie in 1993, it has not been recently staged on Broadway. As such, Hood decided to direct The Madness of King George...