The Dresser (1983)
What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.
Starring Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Zena Walker
Directed by Peter Yates
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.
Runtime: 118 min.
Rating: 6.8
DVD
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom
Genres: Drama
Keywords: alcoholism,backstage,lgbt,post world war ii,theater,make up,drunkenness
Cast
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Norman
Her Ladyship
Madge
Frank Carrington
Oxenby
Irene
Miss White
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