Nottingham PlayhouseThrough Gatiss, the audience feels the agonies of Alan Bennett's tormented monarchKing George III is not mad, but he is ill. However, the porphyria from which he suffers has yet to be identified. Since its symptoms include mental disturbance, the king is declared mad by his doctors. Alan Bennett's 1991 play (subsequently a film) uses this mismatch between appearance and reality to explore question…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AM on November 11, 2018