The Dresser

Name: The Dresser
Genre: Drama
Released: 1983-12-06
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins

1983·Drama·1h 58m

7.1

★

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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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

Peter Yates

Producer

Ronald Harwood

Producer

Ronald Harwood

Theatre Play

Popular Reviews

6 reviews

Fishmo

6.4★ · 09/23/24

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.

JacobRob

7.0★ · 08/02/25

JMadson

9.6★ · 01/29/25

Eddie

8.0★ · 07/14/24