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...Alan Bennett...
Filmed in 1994 as The Madness of King George, Alan Bennett's historical-fictional tale of English monarch George III's bouts of madness was a stage drama before it became a film, and theater is a fitting medium for a play that muses on the theatricality of the monarchy. Chronicling the personal and political fallout of George's episodes of what was probably porphyria, a metabolism disorder affecting factors from urine color to sensitivity to light, Bennett's script is renowned for its wit and inventiveness-and for its difficulty. Director Frederick Hood '01 has the energies...
...Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III opens shortly after England has lost its American colonies and shows the Establishment gone amuck. The King is mad, the Prince of Wales is scheming to displace his father, the Queen and the Prime Minister are determined to keep him in power and a host of incompetent doctors and parliamentarians wander in and out of the center stage. Politics as usual...
...about leadership and its dissimulation. The crux of the play lies in the king's remark as he recovers his sanity: "I have remembered how to seem; that is the important thing." Sanity, for George III, involves maintaining a public persona. The king's dilemma, and the question that Bennett throws out at his audience, is where does a suitable public face begin and sanity...
...quarterfinals, there was a moment when I realized the Cold War is not only history, it's cold history. In the space of a half hour I saw Jeff Lacy, the American armed robber turned 165-pound contender, stopped by a Russian, then our 201-pound ex-con, Michael Bennett, stopped by the brilliant Cuban, Felix Savon. The crowd was very evenhanded and it wasn't until I was on my way out that I realized I had just watched two of our guys lose to a Russian and a Cuban. We used to be able to work out some...