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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...
...First of all, that Beta-male Al Gore was just another minor aberration. The vice president seems to have revived the Jim Lehrer?jumping, time-hogging, smarty-pants Alpha-hood that he applied to Wooden Al at the Los Angeles convention: Here's what I want to do - exactlywhat I want to do. Is it so bad that I'm positively chewing my leg off to get a chance...
...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...
...size of this production has been the main difficulty for Hood's team. Rehearsals for the 22 actors started only two weeks ago and have been accompanied by many technical challenges. Hood's vision for the production is that of an aesthetic experience, where the stage, sets and lighting are as important as the text of the play itself...
...shot in Denmark, bearing little resemblance to the U.S., rather becoming an outsider's perception of America. But von Trier seems to be asking his viewers to take a leap of faith with the story, almost like reading a children's fairytale on the level of Red Riding Hood. Except the Brothers Grimm version not sweetened for children, where Red Riding Hood gets swallowed and eaten by the wolf. It is here at the allegorical level that von Trier is most capable, he takes us on a ride through the trial of woman, and the test her love...