Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The audience that recently made their way down to the Playhouse Theatre in Liverpool to watch one of the leading lights in the art of ventriloquism may or not have watched a particular programme tucked away on B.B.C. Television during the summer of 2012 on Nina Conti and her relationship with British theatre maverick Ken Campbell and the secondary bond with her mentor’s voice and dolls.
The acting world mourned yesterday the news that one of its most loved and much respected actors, Richard Briers, died on Sunday at the age of 79.
He was known to millions of television viewers for programmes such as the 1970s smash hit The Good Life, Ever Decreasing Circles and Monarch of the Glen and for his incredible roles in films that he was cast in by his friend Sir Kenneth Branagh such as Hamlet, Henry V (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1993) and the superb 1994 version of Frankenstein in which he starred with Robert De Niro as well as Sir Kenneth Branagh. Richard Briers had been battling a lung condition for many years, however true to the consummate professional he was he had carried on working up to the point he died.