The Film
The Dresser
What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.
The Story
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
Released Dec 1983
Directed by
Peter Yates
Written byRonald Harwood
Gallery
The Stills.
