STAGE BEAUTY d: Richard Eyre

Stage Beauty (2004)
Director: Richard Eyre
Screenplay: Jeffrey Hatcher; from his own play Compleat Female Stage Beauty
Cast: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Rupert Everett, Tom Wilkinson, Zoe Tapper, Ben Chaplin, Richard Griffiths, Edward Fox, Hugh Bonneville
 

 

SHAKESPEARE IN CONFUSION
Despite touches from A Star Is Born, All About Eve, Farewell, My Concubine, and the many versions of Viktor und Viktoria, Stage Beauty’s raison d’être is the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love. Like its predecessor, this romantic comedy about gender impersonations in old-time British theater may even succeed in becoming a critical and box-office hit in spite of itself. For Stage Beauty, directed by Richard Eyre and adapted for the screen by Jeffrey Hatcher (from his own play), is as much of a calculated crowd-pleaser [...]

by Andre Soares | October 17, 2004   
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