Stage Beauty

Stage Beauty was fun! Ham, sexual identity issues and the spontaneous invention of Stanislavskian acting in just one 17th-century rehearsal: what more could you ask for? I wonder why it disappeared at the box office – it was just as fun as Shakespeare in Love, though not nearly as conventional a love story. Not exactly subtle or as sophisticated as its period setting might have promised, it was nevertheless a sprightly and enjoyable movie, brimful of quotable lines.