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Ronald Harwood's The Dresser comes to the Palace
Ronald Harwood’s international hit play, The Dresser, launches at Watford Palace Theatre’s Autumn Centenary Season.
Brigid Larmour, artistic director, said of the award winning British playwright: "What better way to mark our theatre’s 100th anniversary, than with the ultimate backstage drama, Ronald Harwood’s brilliant play The Dresser."
With thirty minutes to curtain-up, air-raid sirens sounding and the best actors having been called up, Sir is crumbling. Norman, Sir’s devoted dresser, must once again rally the unpredictable star whose grip on sanity is becoming increasingly precarious.
Inspired by the memories of Harwood’s own experience as dresser to Sir Donald Wolfit, this evocative, perceptive and hilarious portrait of backstage life is one of the most acclaimed dramas of modern theatre.
Ronald Harwood won an Oscar for his screenplay The Pianist (2002), and most recently a Bafta and Golden Globe for his screenplay The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2008). Following the success of our World Premiere Production of An English Tragedy earlier this year, Harwood returns to the Palace with this modern classic, which also became a successful film starring Albert Finney.
For more information contact the theatre box office on 01923 225671.
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