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The Dresser (1983)

The Dresser (1983)

Drama

What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.

Release Date: 1983, December 6
Directors: Peter Yates
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Columbia Pictures
Cast: Albert Finney, Michael Gough, Ralph G. Morse, Eileen Atkins, Sheila Reid, Ann Way, Edward Fox, John Sharp, Tom Courtenay, Joe Belcher, Stuart Richman, Donald Eccles

Overview:

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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