In 1971, Richard appeared at the
Apollo Theatre in ''
Charley's Aunt'' with
Tom Courtenay, and in 1978 she appeared in
Chekhov's
The Three Sisters and
Shakespeare's
Twelfth Night in a small British tour for the
Royal Shakespeare Company, with
Ian McKellen,
Edward Petherbridge,
Roger Rees,
Rose Hill and
Bob Peck. In 1982 she appeared at the
Open Air Theatre in London's
Regent's Park in
Shaw's
The Admirable Bashville and
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and in
Shakespeare's ''
A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Taming of the Shrew''. Also in 1982 Richard appeared in Shakespeare's
Twelfth Night at the
Donmar Warehouse in London with Ian McKellen, Edward Petherbridge and
Edward Hardwicke. in
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (November 1980) at the
Aldwych Theatre, an epic eight-hour stage adaptation of
Charles Dickens' novel
Nicholas Nickleby with Roger Rees, Timothy Spall,
John Woodvine, Edward Petherbridge,
Ben Kingsley,
Fulton Mackay,
David Threlfall, Bob Peck, Rose Hill and
Christopher Benjamin. In June 1981 she reprised her role as Kate Nickleby in
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby for the
Royal Shakespeare Company with
Alun Armstrong and
Ian McNeice added to the cast, Ben Kingsley and Timothy Spall having left the production. This version was
filmed by Channel 4 in 1982 and broadcast as four two-hour episodes on consecutive nights in November 1982. She appeared in the play during its fourteen-week run at the
Plymouth Theatre on
Broadway, opening on 22 September 1981. Also for the
RSC Richard appeared in
Shakespeare's ''
Love's Labour's Lost in 1984 at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon with Kenneth Branagh, Roger Rees, Edward Petherbridge, Frances Barber and Frank Middlemass, and in a 1993 production of Macbeth'' at the
Barbican Theatre with
Derek Jacobi and
Cheryl Campbell. ==Film and television==