The Dresser Page #2
- TV-14
- Year:
- 2015
- 105 min
- 1,500 Views
Oh, yes, Madge'll know what to do.
She won't upset herself,
that's for certain.
No, Madge will be ever so sensible.
I suppose stage managers have to be.
I had a friend once,
had been a vicar before falling from
the pulpit and landing on the stage.
Ever so good as an ugly sister.
To the manner born.
His wife didn't upset easily.
Just as well, I suppose,
all things considered.
Madge reminds me of her.
Cold, businesslike, boring.
The doctor took me into a little
room littered with enamel dishes
full of blood-stained bandages.
The smell made me faint.
He asked me
about his behaviour in recent days.
Had I noticed anything untoward?
And what did you say?
If you don't mind my asking.
I lied.
I said he'd been perfectly normal.
I don't want to appear neglectful.
I should have been more vigilant.
Only last night I woke...
Is that Madge? No, it's Irene.
You were saying?
Last night you woke.
He was looking at me. He was naked.
It was bitter cold,
he was shivering.
He said, "Thank you for watching
over me but don't worry.
"I have the feeling
I may do something violent. "
Talk about untoward.
I'm glad you didn't
tell the doctors that,
they'd have locked him up for good.
Last night, after Othello,
he asked me,
"What do we play tomorrow, Norman?"
I told him King Lear and he said,
"Then I shall wake with
the storm clouds over my head. "
I should have made him rest.
The doctor said he'd come to the end
of his rope and found it frayed.
put up with
what he's had to put up with.
You should've told
the doctor about the troubles.
No. Civilians never understand.
I could kick myself for taking him
to the hospital.
I hope so. Doctors.
Can you imagine trying to explain to
a doctor what Sir's been through?
"Well, you see, doctor,
he's been trying to recruit actors
"for his Shakespeare company and
all the able-bodied and best ones
"are in uniform, and the theatres
are bombed
"as soon as you book them. "
Doctors.
He'd have had his hypodermic
As You Like It.
Madge is right.
There is no alternative.
We'll have to cancel.
Oh, no, oh, Your Ladyship, no,
cancellation's ever so drastic.
He's ill.
There's no crime in being ill,
it's not high treason,
it's not a capital offence, it's not
desertion in the face of the enemy.
He's not himself. He can't work.
Will the world stop turning?
Will the Nazis overrun England?
One Lear more or less in the world
won't make any difference.
Who really cares
whether he acts or not?
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