Stage Beauty Page #2

Synopsis: Based in the 1660's of London's theaters, this film is about the rules of gender roles in theatre production, and means to change them for everyone's benefit. Ned Kynaston is the assumedly gay cross-dressing actor who has been playing female parts in plays for years, particularly Desdemona in Othello, he also has a close relationship with a member of the Royal Court, the Duke of Buckingham. One day however, the rules of only men playing women could change when aspiring actress Maria auditions as Kynaston's praised role, Desdemona, and soon enough, King Charles II decides to make the law that all female roles should be played only by women. Maria becomes a star, while Ned finds himself out of work. But after a while, Ned finds it in his nature to forgive Maria's aspiration, they may even fall in love, and Charles may proclaim women will be played by either gender.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Richard Eyre
  3 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
64
R
Year:
2004
106 min
817 Views


Mr Kynaston, we saw

the performance this evening.

We're such fans, I can't tell you.

She's seen you six times. She has.

Juliet and Ophelia.

And the one with no hands.

Mr Kynaston, I am a great fan.

And I was wondering...

Well... Would you be willing to ride with us

through St James's tonight?

It would be such an honour to have you.

- Please, please, please!

- Please!

If you give me half an hour

to remove my face and clothes.

Oh, no, don't, please!

Mr Kynaston, weod ke you

to eave you r appearance

as is.

He said yes!

This is so good!

Mr Kynaston, if I may,

would you be able to make me

an advance on salary?

- Advance? That's unlike you.

- Till the end of the week.

- How much?

- Six.

Thank you.

Will you be needing me later?

Oh, yes. Hopeless without.

How long do you think

you'll be with them?

- Three hours, say?

- Yes, I'll be here.

Mr Kynaston!

Mr Kynaston!

- Is he coming?

Do hurry up, Mr Kynaston, please!

All these people!

Mr Kynaston!

MAN Are you an actor, too?

I played the Moor.

You look different.

Yes, I'm not really black.

Where were you?

- Thought you'd abandoned us.

- I couldn't get away.

- Did you bring it?

- She'd better had.

Mr Cockerell.

If you expect to perform,

I expect my guarantee.

It's my risk, you know.

It's illegal to have these on stage.

Both of us

were rather wondering

if you were... really...

...well, a gentleman.

For, you see, my father's a wigmaker.

He says you're much too beautiful

to be a gentleman.

He says you must be a woman.

My mother's friend,

the Earl of Lauderdale, says,

if you're a man,

you don't have a gentleman's thingy.

He says you're like those Italian singers,

the whatsits?

- Castrati.

- The Earl says

they cut off your castrati at birth.

Then you become a woman.

So the Earl of Lauderdale is not a surgeon?

No, he's an earl.

Well...

How then may we prove to both your

father and your mother's special friend...

...that I do indeed

have a thingy?

A big, bulging,

orb and sceptre of a thingy.

Well, I...

I... I think we'd...

We'd have to...

We'd have to...

We'd have to touch it.

Touch what?

What?

- What...

- Whatever it is.

Oh!

Mmm!

If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,

I can again thy former light restore,

Should I repent me:

But once put out thy light,

thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,

I know not where is that Promethean heat

That can thy light relume.

She wakes.

Who's there? Othello?

Whoa!

Whoa!

Oh, my!

I think my wrist's broken.

Oh, erm...

Here.

- What's this?

- A shilling.

For services rendered.

Women, beware!

I see three fish eager and awaiting.

Come, skewer on my pole!

I know a playful bunch when I see 'em.

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Jeffrey Hatcher

Jeffrey Hatcher is an American playwright and screenwriter. He wrote the stage play Compleat Female Stage Beauty, which he later adapted into a screenplay, shortened to just Stage Beauty (2004). He also co-wrote the stage adaptation of Tuesdays with Morrie with author Mitch Albom, and Three Viewings, a comedy consisting of three monologues - each of which takes place in a funeral home. He wrote the screenplay Casanova for director Lasse Hallström, as well as the screenplay for The Duchess (2008). He has also written for the Peter Falk TV series Columbo and E! Entertainment Television. more…

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