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...years, believed himself to be Emperor Henry IV of Germany. As the play opens, his one-time paramour Matilda (Karin Alexander '02) comes to visit "Henry" in his grotesquely medieval living-space. She brings her friend Baron Belcredi (Tom Price '02), her daughter Frida (Marianne Cook '02) and a psychiatrist (Matthew Carlson) who intends to study "Henry" and attempt to cure him. Matilda and Belcredi explain the scenario to the doctor and to us before entering Henry's masquerade along with the madman's attendants (Luvh Rakhe '01, Michael Katherine Haynie '99, Mimi Asnes '02, Morgan Goulet '00). After observing...
...other leading roles are quite capably filled. Carlson plays the supercilious psychiatrist excellently; his haughty posture is such that he manages to look down his nose even at the towering Skeist. Price is similarly condescending as Baron Belcredi, weathering Matilda's insults and ruthlessly mocking Frida while always maintaining his panache. Cook brings great zest to the role of the attention-seeking Frida, and David Freeman '02 gives her fianc, the Marquis, an appropriately petulant reading. The four attendants are alternately hilarious and touching; Rakhe and Haynie are deliciously over-the-top throughout Act I, and both Asnes and Goulet...
...early 1994 Williamson began seeing Dr. Myron Liptzin, a U.N.C. psychiatrist, who found Williamson to be delusional but not schizophrenic. He prescribed antipsychotic medication, and Williamson stopped hearing voices. Liptzin planned to retire in the summer, and says he encouraged Williamson to find a new doctor but admits he didn't make a specific referral...
...were surprised that Williamson was judged insane and acquitted of murder. But when he won his lawsuit against his psychiatrist, much of the state turned against him and the jurors who favored him. Not that Williamson will get much enjoyment from the money. It is unlikely that any doctor will ever release him from the hospital, for fear of liability...
...stopped eating and slipped into a depression. A friend had to care for her son. Eventually friends found her a psychiatrist willing to provide free therapy and medication. Since January she has been working as a clerk in a government-sponsored public works program, which pays for food and the tiny, unheated basement apartment she moved into after being laid off. But Kim doesn't know what she and her son will do when the money from her subsidized program runs...