Complex sentence: Everett's break came in 1981 at the Greenwich Theatre and later West End production of "Another Country", playing a gay schoolboy opposite Kenneth Branagh, followed by a film version in 1984 with Cary Elwes and Colin Firth.
Split into simpler sentences: Everett's break came in 1981 at the Greenwich Theatre and later West End production of "Another Country", playing a gay schoolboy opposite Kenneth Branagh. This was followed by a film version of "Another Country" in 1984 with Cary Elwes and Colin Firth.