1:03:04
- Kind sir, would point thy dagger...
- Sir?
1:03:08
Do forgive. We're about to perform
one of our Palace musicales.
1:03:14
Sir, the guests?
1:03:20
- You look familiar.
- Sir, I am Edward Kynaston.
1:03:22
Kynaston! How in hell did you get in here?
1:03:25
A former fellow actor is your undercook
and has long been dear a friend to me.
1:03:28
Then we'll have to execute him.
1:03:32
Joke, joke.
1:03:33
Calm down, Kynaston.
1:03:36
What do you want with Nell, anyway?
1:03:38
Nell doesn't like you very much.
1:03:39
When she came to Mr Betterton's theatre,
my bile was aimed at another.
1:03:42
- I did not even see Miss Gwynn.
- I'm sure you can straighten it out.
1:03:46
But it's just not important to me.
1:03:48
It is to me!
1:03:50
Charlie, what's holding things up?
1:04:08
Say what you want.
1:04:21
I want to act.
1:04:23
Then act.
1:04:25
I want to act as I did before.
1:04:28
- The girls' parts?
- If you will.
1:04:29
I won't. Balance the scales, Kynaston,
give the girls a chance.
1:04:34
Besides...
1:04:36
it's a sop to the Church.
1:04:39
Priests always preach
about boys playing women.
1:04:42
They say it leads
to effeminacy and sodomy.
1:04:46
Well, they'd know, they're priests.
1:04:47
Act a man, Kynaston.
1:04:50
How hard could it be?
1:04:52
It is not a question of acting a man.
1:04:55
I can act a man.
1:04:58
There's no artistry in that.