Today we watched the end of Stage Beauty, a film on the resurgence of theater in London England. The film portrays the story of a man named Ned Kynaston, who's profession from a young age is to play women on the stage. Through the movie the king passes a decree that only allows women to play woman’s roles, the opposite of the last 50 years of theater. The plot follows his downfall and eventual resolve with his job and his person. The importance of watching this film for me was the representation of theater in a social and political light. It is treated as though it crosses boarders, and class, from the underground bar to the kings palace, they all have theater. It is portrayed as though the king was almost an equal to the players and their houses. Generally, if anything can be taken from this film, it is that during reformation theater, things never seen before were being shown on stage in public not only private.
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