The Dresser

Dec 6, 1983

1h 58m

★ 6.7

What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.

Overview

In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Sir

Albert Finney

Norman

Tom Courtenay

Oxenby

Edward Fox

Her Ladyship

Zena Walker

Madge

Eileen Atkins

Frank Carrington

Michael Gough

Irene

Cathryn Harrison

Violet Manning

Betty Marsden

Lydia Gibson

Sheila Reid

Geoffrey Thornton

Lockwood West

Mr. Godstone

Donald Eccles

Horace Brown

Llewellyn Rees

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