Issue Date: 10/15/07
'Compleat Female Stage Beauty' finishes flawless
By Ashley Ward
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All of the actors played their role to the fullest and it showed.
"Compleat Female Stage Beauty," by Jeffrey Hatcher and directed by Pat Lamer, is a play about about the time when women first began to take the stage and the effects it had on men when they were no longer chosen for the roles as women.
"Compleat Female Stage Beauty" didn't focus very much on the fact that women began acting, but it basically followed the life of a popular male actor who played the women's lead role in the Shakespeare play Othello.
The lead role of actor Edward Kynaston, played by Sean LaRocca, was performed with much passion.
Throughout the play he is faced with many difficult situations-losing his job to the first female actor, losing his lover, getting booed off stage and getting beat up.
Each scene is shown with heartfelt emotion.
Actress Alyssa Schindler, who played the role of Maria, shined with her character's tenderness and compassion.
During the play, Maria takes care of Edward and is always by his side during his rough times.
She also keeps to herself, so she doesn't pursue her crush on Edward. Even though his character is homosexual, he stills stands her up for two other girls when she gets the chance to go out with him.
The most vivacious and colorful performance of the evening was by Rachel Robinson who played Nell Gwynn.
She was hysterical, exuberant and definitely stood out from the crowd.
Robinson's character filled the audience with laughter by dancing around stage practically naked behind a gold shield and also later by singing a song with the chorus line "No balls at all, no balls at all," which stuck in my head long after I left the theater.
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Alyssa Schindler
posted 10/17/07 @ 6:11 PM PST
Thank you for your generous review. I just want to clarify that the woman singing "No Balls at All" was not Rachel, it was the amazing actress Kaitlyn Terrill. (Continued…)
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