The Dresser
What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.
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.
Cast
Albert FinneySir 
Tom CourtenayNorman 
Edward FoxOxenby 
Zena WalkerHer Ladyship 
Eileen AtkinsMadge 
Michael GoughFrank Carrington 
Cathryn HarrisonIrene 
Betty MarsdenViolet Manning 
Sheila ReidLydia Gibson 
Lockwood WestGeoffrey Thornton - D
Donald EcclesMr. Godstone 
Llewellyn ReesHorace Brown - G
Guy ManningBenton - A
Anne BlackmanBeryl 
Kevin StoneyC. Rivers Lane - A
Ann WayMiss White
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