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Mrs Hughes.
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Is this you?
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Yes.
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You?
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A woman?
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Performed in a play?
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In a public theatre
against the order of the Crown?
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As His Grace said, it's not a real theatre.
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It's more a sort of tavern,
and hence, outside...
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I am the First Minister, Mrs Hughes.
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I know what the law...
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Mrs Hughes.
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This performance of yours,
was it too a one-off?
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Well, sir, it certainly was novel.
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But we had hoped to have more chances.
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That's the tricky thing about novelty.
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Do it more than once, it's not novel any more.
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That may be true, Mr Kynaston.
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But in the theatre, I am told,
there are no old shows, just new audiences.
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Ha!
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- Are you going to do it again?
- She most certainly is not.
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Sir, I insist you issue a proclamation
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- closing this Cockpit...
- But, Charlie!
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- Sir...
- Silence!
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When my father was alive,
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it had long been illegal
for a woman to perform in public.
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In the Palace, of course,
it was women galore.
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Private musicales, masques...
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No-one gave a damn.
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Except... the clerics.
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One minister,
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a Mr Prynne,
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wrote a pamphlet against all actresses
as lewd women...
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and whores.
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Now
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my mother
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acted in some of those court masques.
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And she felt Mr Prynne's diatribe
was directed at her.