Stage Beauty
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:55:00
This is intolerable!
:55:02
Sir Charles, gentlemen, could you leave
Mr Kynaston and me for a moment?

:55:05
Certainly.
:55:08
You know, Mr K, the performance
of yours I always liked best?

:55:12
As much as I adored
your Desdemona and your Juliet,

:55:15
I always loved best the "britches" parts.
:55:18
Rosalind, for instance.
:55:20
And not just because of the woman stuff,
but also because of the man sections.

:55:24
Your performance of the man stuff
seemed so right, so... true.

:55:30
I suppose I felt
it was the most real in the play.

:55:33
You know why the man stuff seemed so real?
:55:36
Because I'm pretending.
:55:38
You see a man through the mirror
of a woman through the mirror of a man.

:55:41
You take one reflecting glass away,
it doesn't work.

:55:43
The man only works because you see
him in contrast to the woman he is.

:55:47
If you saw him
without the her he lives inside,

:55:50
he wouldn't seem a man at all.
:55:56
Yes, you've obviously thought
longer on this question than I.

:56:11
I heard about your...
:56:13
Yes, yes, I imagined you heard.
:56:15
I imagined you might have
more than heard.

:56:17
Perhaps you even heard
before it happened.

:56:21
I do not have your pillow.
:56:23
Well, you could have said that
in front of them.

:56:26
I have taken nothing
that belonged to you!

:56:28
You wear my clothes, play my parts,
live my life and you've taken nothing?

:56:32
Woman's perspective.
:56:34
But at least a recognisable one.
That pillow was my own.

:56:37
It was given to me some time back, as you know.
:56:39
Yes, a dresser always knows
a gentleman's secrets.

:56:42
Of course, I have my own dresser now.
:56:45
He's a man. He used to be an actor.
:56:47
I don't suppose you'd guess wnat type?
:56:52
You know, madam, I am amazed
you have need of an audience!

:56:55
With such self-regard as you display,
what room is left for the public's love?

:56:58
What do you know of love, sir?

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