Stage Beauty Page #8

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
Actors: Derek Hutchinson, Mark Letheren, Claire Danes, Billy Crudup
  3 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
64
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Year:
2004
106 min
842 Views

let me live tonight!

Nay, if you strive...

- But half an hour!

- Being done, there is no pause.

But while I say one prayer!

It is too... late.

No!

Put out the light!

Help!

Help!

He's killing...

He's killing me!

What noise is this?

Not dead?

Not quite yet dead?

I that am cruel am yet merciful;

I will not let thee linger in thy pain:

So...

So.

O, my good lord, yonder's foul murder...

Oh!

Falsely...

...falsely murder'd!

Alas! Alas!

Alas...

...what cry is that?

Sweet mistress, speak!

Who hath done this deed?

Nobody,

I myself.

Farewell:

Commend me to my kind lord:

O, farewell!

Why,

how should she be murder'd?

Bugger!

Brava! Brava!

Brava!

- Brava, Mrs Hughes!

- Brava!

Who knows?

Bravo!

Bravo, Mrs Hughes!

Brava, Mrs Hughes!

Brava! Brava!

Mrs Hughes!

Brava, Mrs Hughes!

- Brava!

- Mrs Hughes!

Brava!

Hughes! Hughes!

Brava!

Very, very good.

Brava!

Brava!

Please, we still have one more scene.

Mrs Hughes!

Mr Betterton!

Surely that was the finest night

I've ever had in the theatre.

What performances!

- Mrs Hughes!

- Producer coming through, thank you.

I do think I did the most extraordinary

performance of my life.

Isn't it truly wonderful?

Marvellous, thank you.

- Good show, Betterton! Ho, ho!

- Thank you.

Thrills and chills.

That new ending - very, very real.

Almost too much so.

But restorative somehow.

Well, that's tragedy for you.

Awe and terror, and yet we still go to dinner.

Where are Mrs Hughes and Mr Kynaston?

You almost killed me!

I did kill you.

You just didn't die.

Why didn't you finish me off?

I finally got the death scene right.

So...

...who are you now?

I don't know.

I don't know.

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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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