
The Dresser
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Ronald Harwood’s poignant, intellectually fierce drama 'The Dresser' turned the stage of the Brooks Atkinson Theatre into a spectacular crucible of theatrical history in 1981, running for 100 acclaimed performances and capturing multiple major Tony nominations. Set in a provincial English theater during the dark, high-stakes bombardment of a World War II air raid, the claustrophobic narrative tracks the intense, codependent relationship between "Sir," an aging, severely unravelling Shakespearean actor-manager, and Norman, his fiercely protective, long-serving dresser who struggles to keep him sober to execute a performance of *King Lear*. Directed by Michael Elliott, the production starred Paul Rogers and Tom Courtenay.

