In
the
movie,
Judi
Dench
who
plays
Laura
Henderson
has
come
back
from
India
and
is
rich
and
lonely.
Her
husband
has
passed
away
and
left
her
with
a
whole
lot
of
money.
She
outdoes
the
variety
of
ways
that
she
can
spend
it
in
till
she
finally
she
finds
one
that
she
actually
has
intrest
in-buying
the
Windmill
Theatre
on
West
End.
After
the
acquisition
of
the
theatre,
she
engages
the
services
of
Bob
Hoskins
who
plays
Vivian
Van
Damm
to
manage
and
run
it.
One
of
her
first
flashes
for
a
good
"running" policy
is
to
have
a
revue-a
variety
show
that
has
a
mixture
of
everything
from
song
and
dance
to
comedy.
Despite
their
inclination
to
opposite
artistic
forces,
they
go
ahead
with
"revue
policy"
with
all
day
all
night
addition
to
the
programme-the
show
is
on
through
out
the
waking
hours
of
the
day.
Once
it
is
seen
that
this
policy
of
show
business
does
actually
work,
a
number
of
theatres
emulate
it
and
hence
it
makes
the
theatre
industry
very
prosperous.
Now
Mrs.
Henderson
decides
to
give
her
revues
a
touch
unique,
unique
only
to
her.
This
touch
in
the
form
of
nudity-not
as
a
obscenity
but
as
an
artistic
form.
The
artistic
validator
at
the
time
of
the
theatre
scene,
Lord
Chancellor,
though
does
not
approve
the
nudity
"clauses"
of
the
Henderson
lady.
To
combat
his
opposition
to
their
"artistic
"ideas,
they
say
that
the
nudity
in
the
show
will
contain
will
not
be
"paraded".
They
say
that
if
nude
ladies
stay
put
while
the
performance
is
on,
it
stays
within
being
artistically
nude
and
cannot
be
called
an
obscenity.
Their
show,
which
eventually
gets
through
the
censor
board,
marks
the
entry
of
nudity
in
its
artistic
form
in
London
Theatre.
Another
source
of
inspiration
is
the
soldiers
who
are
fighting
World
Ward
II.
Judi
Dench's
son
in
the
movie
is
a
war
martyr
and
his
death
gives
her
more
reasons
to
include
nudity.
She
believes
that
a
woman
nude
is
something
that
a
soldier
doesn't
see
during
his
lifetime.
During
the
war,
while
most
theatres
close,
The
Windmill
Theatre
stays
open
defying
all
odds.
The
movie
documents
the
London
Theatre
struggle
of
the
time.
The
cast
also
includes
Kelly
Reilly,
Will
Young,
Thelma
Barlow
and
Christopher
Guest
among
the
major
rolls
in
the
movie.
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