Julian Clary and Matthew Kelly to star in UK tour of ‘The Dresser’
The tour opens in Cheltenham on 10 September 2020
The tour opens in Cheltenham on 10 September 2020
Ken Stott and Reece Shearsmith shine in the much anticipated revival
The West End rival will play at the Duke of York’s Theatre from October
The Dresser starring Ken Stott and Reece Shearsmith at the Duke of York’s Theatre
Sir Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser to be remade by the BBC starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Sir Ian McKellen The Telegraph reports today that the BBC is planning a big new dramatisation of Ronald Harwood’s award-winning 1980 play The Dresser. Directed by Sir Richard Eyre, the production will see the two Sirs reunited after working with each other way back in the Sixties at Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre Company at the Old Vic. McKellen will play the dresser Norman, with Hopkins as the actor-manager “Sir”, believed to have been based on the great West End actor Sir Donald Wolfit. The …
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