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directed by Frederick Hood...
...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 of a large cast to focus, and how well he does so will likely determine not whether George III will be an event, which seems predestined, but what sort of adjectives will be recalled to describe it after the fact. Co-producer Julia Griffin '03 remains confident...
DORCHESTER--Harvard met the hood in Dorchester last night, to use the words of Rev. Eugene F. Rivers...
...What is so fascinating about the interaction between the king and his doctor," Hood says, "is that Willis cures George not by making him seem like a king, but by forcing him to behave as a normal man, bound by the laws of society, propriety and humility. It is only when the king can beg forgiveness of his own servant that he is fit to resume the character of a pompous, eccentric, yet charming monarch. The interaction between Willis and the king is crucial to the arc of the play and for the restoration of order from the political turmoil...
...Madness of King George III will be the first student production on the Mainstage this fall. Hood's choice to put up The Madness of King George III was "informed chiefly by the space [he] wanted to use." In Hood's opinion, the Mainstage warranted "a show that is epic in scope, with a large cast and incorporating the elements of 'total theater'." Hood looked for a story that is played in a variety of locales and whose characters are allowed full development...