• Norman – Michael Sheen
• Her Ladyship – ?
• Irene – ?
• Madge – ?
• Sir – ?
• Geoffrey Thonton – ?
• Mr Oxenby – ?

Act I

The main characters of this play are Sir, a demented actor on his last legs, and Norman, his dresser who desperately struggles to hold Sir’s mind together, which is constantly going to pieces – as when Sir slipped out ealier, took off some of his clothes in the street and trampled on his hat.They prepare a performance of King Lear to an audience of four in a tiny theatre way the hell out in the sticks during German air raids in January 1942. Juggling a shortage of actors and staff in their travelling company, Norman gets Sir dressed while reminding him of his lines, which Sir keeps forgetting and remembering others from different plays while alternately despairing and mustering a stiff resolve to go out on stage. The play is about to start in chaos when the air raid sirens come on and the stage goes dark as there is another blitz.

Act II

The light comes back on and the performance begins. Sir does not appear on cue, rants and raves, but reels off his lines. During the interval, Sir’s mind keeps drifting while he contemplates death, the end of his career and other things. After the play is, against expectations, successfully finished, Sir retires to his dressing-room, where he dies quietly and most unspectacularly while talking to his dresser. Norman does not know what is to become of him after all the years he was Sir’s dresser and laments about the recognition he never got for his work.

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