Compleat Female Stage Beauty

The Old Globe, San Diego

About the Show

Presented in a special, limited engagement, this provocative new play is set just after the Restoration, when women were first permitted to act upon the stage. This lush, lascivious piece, helmed by award-winning director Mark Lamos, imagines the events surrounding the famed Shakespearean actor of the time, Edward Kynaston, when he is banned by the king’s new regime from playing the female roles that made him a star.