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The dresser play script. A chinese painting of the great wall of china is slowly painted across the screen. The dresser is a 1980 west end and broadway play by ronald harwood which tells the story of an aging actors personal assistant who struggles to keep his charges life together. The dresser was nominated for best play for the laurence olivier awards and the film starring albert finney as sir and tom courtenay as norman was nominated for five oscars. I found a filing cabinet at goodwill awhile back for just 99 cents so of course i brought it home.

In a touring shakespearean theater group a backstage hand the dresser is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. With a herculean effort on the part of norman the dresser sir does finally make it on stage and through the performance. Jonathan craig louis mccarthy joy tucker jennifer a. By using our services you agree to our use of cookies.

He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the london blitz. However norman his outspoken gay dresser disagrees and is determined that the show will go on cajoling the confused sir into giving a performance one which will be his swansong at the same time drawing a parallel between king lear and his fool as norman despite ultimate disappointment serves his master. During its long west end run the play starred tom courtenay and freddie jones. It was later filmed with courtenay repeating his performance opposite albert finney as sir.

Ronald harwood is an actor playwright and bafta and oscar winning all the same shadows in the screenplay private potter in and the. Backstage at a theatre in the english provinces during wwii sir the last of the great breed of english actormanagers is in a bad way tonight as his dresser norman tries valiantly to prepare him to go on stage as king lear. Ian you described this script as a carriage it carries you along. The dresser by ronald harwood iona summer theatre july 1 1997.

Based on the authors own experiences as dresser to sir donald wolfit this bracing heartbreaking drama is an elegy to a by gone era. 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. Functionally it was exactly what i needed.

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