The Dresser

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.

When & where

Streaming TBA

Top of the call sheet

• 
  Albert Finney
  as Sir
• 
  Tom Courtenay
  as Norman
• 
  Edward Fox
  as Oxenby
• 
  Zena Walker
  as Her Ladyship
• 
  Eileen Atkins
  as Madge
• 
  Michael Gough
  as Frank Carrington

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