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Playwright
Ronald Harwood
Performance Dates
July 28-31, and August 1-2, 1987
Creative Team
Director.....................................Dennis Romer
Scenic Design..........................D. Martyn Bookwalter
Costume Design......................David Robinson
Lighting Design........................Rob Johnson
Synopsis
One of the most highly acclaimed plays of the 1981 Broadway season, “The Dresser” is an affectionate, funny, moving portrait of life backstage.The time is 1942, and the Blitz is raging over an English provincial city. Sir is nearing a mental breakdown: After a lifetime on stage, the pressures have become too much, especially now, when the war has taken the able-bodied men and left Sir with a repleted cast of “old men, cripples and nancy-boys. ” Morman, Sir’s devoted dresser, combines tender sympathy and nanny-like severity in an attempt to lift his fallen monarch to the stage for one last triumph.
Disciplines
Acting | Dance | Theatre and Performance Studies | Theatre History
Keywords
OST, Summer Stock, Otterbein Theatre, Musicals
Recommended Citation
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department, "The Dresser" (1987). 1987 Summer Theatre. 4.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/summer_production_1987/4