LICENSED TO THRILL Monday Film Series - Stage Beauty July 3, 2006

Free admission! OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Licensed to Thrill focuses on the period's fascination with rakes, libertines, and sexual liberation, featuring post-film discussions led by Stanford faculty and the Stanford Summer Theater company.
Movie starts at 7 PM.
Trailer.



Edward "Ned" Kynaston (Billy Crudup) is England's most celebrated leading "lady" (circa 1660), using his beauty and skill to make the great female roles his own. But when Charles II tires of seeing the same old performers, the ruler allows women to tread the boards and decrees that men may no longer play women's parts. Overnight, Ned becomes a nonentity -- that is, until his ex-dresser, Maria (Claire Danes), helps him become a real man again.

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