Alison Steadman Mike Leigh's "Abigail's Party", which she reprised with the original cast on television. She won an Olivier Award for "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice", and also appeared in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "Entertaining Mr Sloane", "Hotel Paradiso", and others in locations as diverse as the Royal Court, the Theatre Royal, the Old Vic, the Hampstead Theatre, the Nottingham Playhouse, the Everyman Liverpool and the National Theatre. She starred as Elmire in the 1983 RSC production of Molière's "Tartuffe", which was adapted for BBC television. In 2010, Steadman was cast as Madame Arcati in a revival of
Richard Martin (British director) Richard Martin (British director) Richard Martin (born 3 January 1935) is a retired British television director and former actor. After starting his career as an actor, he worked regularly as a director throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, which included directing several early serials of "Doctor Who" starring William Hartnell, and series such as "Compact", "Crown Court" and "All Creatures Great and Small". He is married to actress Suzanne Neve. After having acted in the 1958 television series "Ivanhoe" and the 1960 series "Maigret", Martin was asked to join the production team working on yet to be released series "Doctor