The Dresser 1983

Synopsis

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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Cast

• Albert Finney Sir
• Tom Courtenay Norman
• Edward Fox Oxenby
• Zena Walker Her Ladyship
• Eileen Atkins Madge
• Michael Gough Frank Carrington
• Cathryn Harrison Irene
• Betty Marsden Violet Manning
• Sheila Reid Lydia Gibson
• Lockwood West Geoffrey Thornton

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