The Dresser
What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.
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- Drama
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.
Keywords
- alcoholism
- lgbt
- drunkenness
- post world war ii
- backstage
- make up
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 6, 1983
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Columbia Pictures
- Cast
- Albert Finney,Tom Courtenay,Edward Fox,Zena Walker,Eileen Atkins,Michael Gough,Cathryn Harrison,Betty Marsden,Sheila Reid,Lockwood Westand 18 more
- Director
- Peter Yates
- Writer
- Ronald Harwood
- Producer
- Peter Yates,Ronald Harwood
- Cinematography
- Kelvin Pike
- Music
- James Horner
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0085461