Stage Beauty (2004)DVD VHS | Cast list | | Billy Crudup | as | Ned Kynaston | | Claire Danes | as | Maria | | Rupert Everett | as | King Charles II | | Tom Wilkinson | as | Betterton | | Zoe Tapper | as | Nell Gwynn | | Richard Griffiths | as | Sir Charles Sedley | | Ben Chaplin | as | George Villiars, Duke of Buckingham | | Hugh Bonneville | as | Samuel Pepys | | Edward Fox | as | Sir Edward Hyde | | Derek Hutchinson | as | Stage Manager | | Mark Letheren | as | Male Emilia/Dickie | | Jack Kempton | as | Call Boy | | Alice Eve | as | Miss Frayne | | Fenella Woolgar | as | Lady Meresvale | | David Westhead | as | Harry |
| | Crew list: | | Richard Eyre (Director) | | Jeffrey Hatcher (Writer) |
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Review
Based in the 1660's of London's theatres, this film from director Richard Eyre (Iris), it is about the rules of gender roles in theatre production, and means to change them for everyone's benefit. Ned Kynaston (Billy Crudup) is the homosexual 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 male co-actor. One day however, the rules of only men playing women could change when aspiring actress Maria (Claire Danes) auditions as Kynaston's praised role, Desdemona, and soon enough, King Charles II (Rupert Everett) 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. |
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