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Richard Briers

Richard David Briers, CBE was an English actor. His fifty-year career encompassed television, stage, film and radio.
Briers first came to prominence as George Starling in Marriage Lines, but it was a decade later, when he narrated Roobarb and Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk and when he played Tom Good in the BBC sitcom The Good Life, that he became a household name. Later, he starred as Martin in Ever Decreasing Circles, and he had a leading role of Hector in Monarch of the Glen. From the late 1980s, with Kenneth Branagh as director, he performed Shakespearean roles.

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Richard Briers is preparing for

  • The Visit – Toby

    19:45, Wed 23rd – Mon 28th December 2026 at Adelphi Theatre

    The Visit is a 1956 tragicomic play by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

  • Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Musical Director

    20:15, Sun 18th April 2027 at Noël Coward Theatre

    Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a musical with a book by Australian film director-writer Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott, using well-known pop songs as its score. Adapted from Elliott's 1994 film The…

  • Cymbeline – Posthumus Leonatus

    17:30, Wed 22nd – Sun 26th September 2027 at Globe Theatre, London

    Cymbeline, also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain or The Tragedy of Cymbeline, is a play by William Shakespeare, based on legends concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobelinus. Although listed…

  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Technical Director

    19:15, Tue 30th November – Fri 3rd December 2027 at Random Venue 59

    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1962 play by Edward Albee. It examines the breakdown of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George. After a university faculty party, they receive an…

  • The Crucible – Chief Electrician

    17:00, Tue 7th – Sun 12th December 2027 at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

    The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It was initially called "The Chronicles of Sarah Good". It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Provi…

  • Blood Brothers – Lighting Designer

    19:30, Thu 16th – Mon 20th December 2027 at Random Venue 88

    Blood Brothers is a musical with musics, lyrics and a book by Willy Russell, based loosely on the 1844 novella The Corsican Brothers by Alexandre Dumas. The story is a contemporary nature vs. nurture…

  • Man of La Mancha – Photographer

    19:30, Thu 6th – Mon 10th January 2028 at London Palladium

    Man of La Mancha is a musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn…

  • Death of a Salesman – Publicity Designer

    20:00, Thu 24th – Mon 28th February 2028 at Globe Theatre, London

    Death of a Salesman is a 1949 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was the recipient of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. The play premiered on Broadway…

  • Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Trumpet

    11:15, Thu 27th – Sun 30th April 2028 at Chichester Festival Theatre

    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and libretto by Hugh Wheeler. The musical is based on the 1973 play Sweeney Todd, the…

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