The Dresser
What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.
PG
Drama
Starring: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins
Writer: Ronald Harwood, Ronald Harwood
Release Date:
December 6, 1983
December 6, 1983
Ratings:
6.8 / 10
6.8 / 10
Director:
Peter Yates
Peter Yates
Companies:
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures
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.
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