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.
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| Directing | Peter Yates | Director |
| Production | Peter Yates | Producer |
| Production | Ronald Harwood | Producer |
| Production | Nigel Wooll | Associate Producer |
| Writing | Ronald Harwood | Theatre Play |
| Writing | Ronald Harwood | Screenplay |
| Camera | Kelvin Pike | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Ray Lovejoy | Editor |
| Art | Stephen B. Grimes | Production Design |
| Art | Colin Grimes | Art Direction |
| Art | Josie MacAvin | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Alan Boyle | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | James Horner | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | David John | Sound Mixer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Alan Brownie | Assistant Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Barbara Ritchie | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Joan White | Hairdresser |
| Sound | John Chandler | Boom Operator |
| Sound | John Hayward | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Stephen Janisz | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Sound | Matthew Launay | Sound |
| Sound | Peter Pennell | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Malcolm Davies | Sound |
