The 20th Annual English Department Faculty Staged Reading: “The Madness of George III”

Event time: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 5:30pm
Location: 
Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), Lecture Hall See map
1080 Chapel St.
New Haven, CT 06510
Event description: 

Please join Yale Faculty members for a reading of an edited version of Alan Bennett’s The Madness of George III, chosen to complement the BAC’s special exhibit devoted to 18th-century British queens. The cast:

The Mad Monarch: DAVID QUINT, English Department
His Queen, Charlotte: CATHERINE SHEEHY, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Drama School
The Prince of Wales, later Regent: BRIAN EARP, GR, Philosophy and Psychology
William Pitt, the Prime Minister: LARRY MANLEY, English
Charles James Fox, Prime Minister in waiting: JOHN ROGERS, English
Lord Thurlow, Lord Chancellor (playing both sides of the aisle): JOHN PETERS, English
Captain Fitzroy, equerry: BRANDON LEVIN, GR, Law.
and THOMAS COOLEY, International Opera and Concert Singer

Expected run time: 70 minutes

Open to: 
General Public

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