The Dresser - Duke of York's

jean, agree about the age big time! It's not us being mean, it's being sensible. Norman should be 40ty something, not twice as old.. For me apart from the obvious - losing everything Norman ever knew, loved and cared for, one of the most devastating outcomes it that out-of-work Norman probably had to join the forces.. and it's a bloody frightful thing to face in WWII. Can you make me believe Ian McKellen's character is even considered for such a prospect? Nah.. Together with the many-many things like him spending 16 years in the service of Sir.. Well, okay, where are other 50ty years gone for then? It just doesn't work in the play's framework.

Maybe BBC production is the key aspect of people not wanting to come back to this story so soon? Especially that Eyre's attempts to tell it was so dull..

Thank god I hadn't seen the film before I went to see the stage version. Otherwise I just wouldn't be convinced to step in to the theatre...