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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...
...Fred Hood directed The Madness of George III with the intent of conveying an "aesthetic experience." The cast served this end with an amazing stage presence, recreating the idiosynchratic characters of a period piece, flavored with a few well-picked dramatic allusions. Prime Minister Pitt, for example, was molded on the republican ideal and carried the air of a sad and lonely Robespierre. Christopher Sahm's Prince of Wales and Adam Kline's Duke of York brought a tinge of Oscar Wilde to this Georgian stage. The three incompetent medical men who try to find the key to the king...
...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...
...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...