The Dresser

It is deliciously funny and moving. It is also profoundly about why people perform and create art. And it is heartbreakingly accurate about actors and the theatre.

It's delightful and winning, both sad and funny and touching on so many levels. Welcome this little gem into your arms if you can.

It is, it really is, just as magnificent, powerful and enthralling as you would imagine. Yet to assume the greatness of The Dresser based on the simply sum of its parts is to miss the whole point of the story.

The best part of The Dresser is watching Hopkins and McKellen, two actors at the peak of their considerable powers, playing off each other.