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...this class portrait, distinct personalities soon emerge: Nasia (Candace Evanofski), already aware of her gift for beguiling the opposite sex; Buddy (Curtis Cotton III), who looks ready to make a career of his heartbreak; the mismatched couple Vernon (Damian Jewan Lee), big and black, and Sonya (Rachael Handy), a runty blond; and George (Donald Holden), who has a soft head--he wears a helmet to protect his skull--and a warm heart. He sees a boy floating face down in a swimming pool and dives in to save him. Already racked by an inadvertent tragedy, George assigns himself the mission...
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...
...production's aesthetic line is strictly followed with regard to sound, light and set design. The stage's austerity fits the well-known frugality of the historical George III. Interestingly, the sets seemed to be inspired by French republican and restoration art, rather than by the Georgian tastes of early 19th century Britain. In consonance, the confrontation between Pitt and Fox in parliament was staged in the fashion of an Assemble Nationale, with the two leaders held by spotlights in the center of mural-size doors. Costumes and make-up accentuate the distinction between a humanized George III...
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...
Alan Bennett's comedy or royal maladies, The Madness of George III, finishes its run on the Loeb Mainstage this weekend. Se the review on today's page for more information...