Outstanding actor of stage and screen who made his name as Bri in A Day in the Death of Joe EggThe British theatre changed for ever when Joe Melia, as the sardonic teacher Bri, pushed a severely disabled 10-year-old girl in a wheelchair on to the stage of the Glasgow Citizens in May 1967 and proceeded to make satirical jokes about the medical profession while his marriage was disintegrating. The play was Pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33PM on October 14, 2016