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...look like an interstellar villain because I'm test-driving the Mobile Assistant IV, a "wearable computer" produced by Xybernaut, a small Fairfax company. It's hard to believe, but the doodads attached to my head and waist add up to a full-fledged PC, with 233-MHz Pentium chip, 32-MB memory and upwards of 3 GB storage. The keyboard on my wrist has 60 keys, and there is a trackball built into the central processor. Suspended in front of my left eye is a full-color vga screen scarcely larger than a postage stamp but so close...
...test run is going very well. I corner some unsuspecting souls and ask them for their impressions of me. One or two people say I'm freaking them out - apparently not much has changed since my high-school days. But when I have explained what the MA-IV is and can do, most folks pronounce it cool. Would they consider buying one? Um, maybe. (See the interviews on our website...
...policy of breaking the eight plays into two cycles of four seems crazy. The first group - Richard II, Henry IV parts I and II and Henry V - was launched back in March 2000 and finished last week. The second tranche, embracing the three parts of Henry VI and Richard III, continues in London until...
...employed four directors for the project, giving each total artistic freedom. Hence, Steven Pimlott's modern-dress Richard II is followed by Michael Attenborough's period Henry IVs and Edward Hall's guns-and-missiles Henry V. Then it's back to robes and swords as Michael Boyd completes the cycle with Henry VIs and Richard III. While it is a jolt to finish, say, Richard II with his successor Henry IV in a business suit and then to start the next play with Henry suddenly in medieval garb, the different approaches demonstrate the works' universality...
...Queen meanwhile is the terrifying Fiona Bell, whose Margaret moves from manipulative beauty to a crazed outcast, dragging her slaughtered son's bones around in a sack. Earlier, Samuel West and particularly RSC regular David Troughton proved electric as Richard II and his nemesis Bolingbroke (later Henry IV). Desmond Barritt is a sad, lyrical Falstaff, and newcomer William Houston exciting but mannered as Henry...