
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.

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
Donald Eccles
Mr. Godstone

Llewellyn Rees
Horace Brown

Son, I Love Your Mouth 2: The Taste of the Forbidden
Son, I Love Your Mouth 2: The Taste of the Forbidden

Patty Is Such a Girly Name
Patty Is Such a Girly Name

B&B
B&B

Hardcore
Hardcore

The Place Between Us
The Place Between Us

I Killed My Mother
I Killed My Mother

Bigayan
Bigayan

Summer to Winter
Summer to Winter

Make the Yuletide Gay
Make the Yuletide Gay

To Die, to Sleep
To Die, to Sleep

Remy & Arletta
Remy & Arletta

Wonderful and Loved by All
Wonderful and Loved by All