The Dresser

1983 "What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy."
7.5| 1h58m| PG| en| Drama
Storyline

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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Columbia Pictures

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  • The Dresser Cast
Tom Courtenay as Norman
Edward Fox as Oxenby
Zena Walker as Her Ladyship
Eileen Atkins as Madge
Michael Gough as Frank Carrington
Betty Marsden as Violet Manning
Sheila Reid as Lydia Gibson