(The real Rosemary came and went – a literally spitting-mad performance from the terrific Monica Dolan).
At the time of the Mad Men performance, Hills was working as a professional artist and illustrator married to Stewart Young, the manager for AC/DC, Cyndi Lauper, and Foreigner.
Perhaps if he hadn't sung his finale "Mad World" performance in that 'Basketball Diaries' cloak, which made us fear he was a misunderstood youth about to pull out a semiautomatic and open fire on the tweens in the mosh pit, he would have won.
Brando is lethally powerful, but I am ambivalent about Leigh's stagey, mad-eyed performance, often pitilessly inspected in closeup.
Nicholson wears a satanic goatee and mustache, and his eyebrows flip up and down like semaphore flags; he gives the ultimate mad-Jack performance, a free-ranging and spontaneous impression, complete with Irish ditties, of a man who relishes each filthy deal and bone-crushing blow.
"I'm not mad at my performance," Kwan said.
Indeed, Mr. McKellen's physicality is central to his "mad as hell" performance: it expresses Lear's anger as persuasively as the role's traditional mad howling into the storm.
Directed by Mr. Wajda at the Yale Repertory Theater, it featured a cast of then unknowns -- Meryl Streep and Christopher Durang among them -- and Ms. Czyzewska, who played a crippled woman, seemingly mad, in a performance that was singled out by critics and is still remembered by theater scholars.
Marni Kotak during her six-week long performance, 'Mad Meds'.
Kotak has now returned to the gallery for her latest exhibition, Mad Meds a live performance during which she will be gradually weaning herself off of the drugs she was prescribed while in the hospital.
