Released:
1983-12-06

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.

Director:
Peter Yates

Runtime:
1h 58min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Albert Finney
  as
  Sir
• 
  Tom Courtenay
  as
  Norman
• 
  Edward Fox
  as
  Oxenby
• 
  Zena Walker
  as
  Her Ladyship
• 
  Eileen Atkins
  as
  Madge