Theatre
Her stage credits include:
- Essie in The Devil's Disciple (Bernard Shaw), Leeds Playhouse, 1983
- Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, RSC small-scale tour 1983; The Other Place 1984
- Jessica in The Merchant of Venice, RSC Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1984
- Moth in Love's Labours Lost, RSC Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1984
- Lucy Ellison in Today by Robert Holman, RSC The Other Place, October 1984; The Pit Barbican Centre, May 1985
- Apricot in The Dragon's Tail by Douglas Watkinson, Apollo Theatre, October 1985
- Neuroza in Tell Me Honestly (Kenneth Branagh), Not the RSC Festival, Almeida Theatre 1985
- Adela in The House of Bernarda Alba (Lorca, directed by Núria Espert), Lyric Hammersmith, September 1986; Globe Theatre, January 1987
- Harriet in The Man of Mode (George Etherege), RSC Swan Theatre, July 1988; The Pit, April 1989
- Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, RSC Barbican Theatre, May 1989
- Betty McNeil in Some Americans Abroad (Richard Nelson), RSC The Pit, July 1989
- Cordelia in King Lear, RSC Almeida Theatre. September 1989
- Cressida in Troilus and Cressida, RSC Swan Theatre, April 1990; The Pit, June 1991
- Rosaline in Love's Labours Lost RSC Royal Shakespeare Theatre, September 1990; Barbican Theatre, March 1991
- Nina in The Seagull (Anton Chekhov), RSC Swan Theatre; November 1990; Barbican Theatre July 1991
- Cleopatra in Caesar and Cleopatra (Shaw),co-starring with Alec McCowen, Greenwich Theatre, February 1992
- The Manageress in 50 Revolutions (Murray Gold), Oxford Stage Company, Whitehall Theatre, September 1999
- Edith in Conversations After a Burial (Yasmina Reza), Almeida Theatre, September 2000
- Polina Bardin in Enemies (Maxim Gorky in a version by David Hare), Almeida Theatre, May 2006
- Sarah in The Norman Conquests, an interlinked trilogy by Alan Ayckbourn, Old Vic, October 2008
- Hester Collyer in The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Rattigan), Chichester Festival Theatre, July 2011
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Famous quotes containing the word theatre:
“As in a theatre the eyes of men,
After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,
Are idly bent on him that enters next,
Thinking his prattle to be tedious,
Even so, or with much more contempt, men’s eyes
Did scowl on gentle Richard.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Mankind’s common instinct for reality ... has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life’s supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man’s frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.”
—Sarah Bernhardt (1845–1923)