GREEN ROOM THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS THE DRESSER
FOR THE SECOND ANNUAL COACHELLA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
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This staged reading, under the direction of David Catanzarite, features Award-Winning veteran actors Derrik Lewis and Richard Marlow. An outstanding supporting cast includes Judalon Manes,
Patricia West-Del Ruth, Jefferey Strange, and newcomer Shelby Cullen.
The dark comedy by Ronald Harwood was a smash in London and New York, and inspired two memorable film versions starring Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay, then Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen.
Set in England during the darkest days of Blitz, the play centers on the disordered relationship between an aging actor, known to us only as "Sir", and his devoted theatrical dresser, Norman.
Sir is the actor-manager of a touring Shakespeare company who is about to perform Shakespeare's King Lear during a bombing raid.
Like the character of Lear, Sir is mentally exhausted and experiencing dementia. Norman is stubbornly determined that his master will perform; over the objections of Sir's wife and their faithful stage manager Norman pieces Sir together to get him onstage. The action alternates between wry comedy and deep pathos as the relationship between master and servant unwinds backstage.
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The Coachella Shakespeare Festival continues on
Friday May 17th, 7:00p.m.
at Create Center for the Arts, 73733 Fred Waring Drive, Suite 100
and Saturday matinee, May 18th, 2:00 p.m. at
the Palm Desert Public Library is at 73300 Fred Waring Drive.
Admission to staged readings of The Dresser is free of charge.
