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.
Directed by Peter Yates
alcoholism
backstage
lgbt
post world war ii
make up
drunkenness
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Letterboxd
3.6 / 5
Where to Watch
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
Llewellyn Rees
Horace Brown
Kevin Stoney
C. Rivers Lane
Crew
Peter Yates
Director
Ronald Harwood
Screenplay
James Horner
Original Music Composer
Ronald Harwood
Producer
Peter Yates
Producer
Ronald Harwood
Theatre Play
Popular Reviews
6 reviews
Fishmo
6.4★ · 09/23/24
shs drama club found footage
shs drama club found footage
Timothy Kandra
Was there even a stage manager hired for this tour? If my friends and I were talking as loudly as these characters do backstage (in the middle of a show, might I add), we'd be in huge trouble.
Was there even a stage manager hired for this tour? If my friends and I were talking as loudly as these characters do backstage (in the middle of a show, might I add), we'd be in huge trouble.
