Theatre Career
- Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, 1949 season
- Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, St Martin's Theatre, December 1949
- Anni in Captain Carvallo, St. James' Theatre, August 1950
- Iras in Caesar and Cleopatra and Antony and Cleopatra, St. James' Theatre, May 1951 (opposite Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh)
- Helen Eliot in The Night of the Ball, New Theatre, January 1955
- Masha in The Seagull, Saville Theatre, August 1956
- Mrs. Martin in The Bald Prima Donna, Arts Theatre, November 1956
- Sarah Stanham in The Touch of Fear, Aldwych Theatre, December 1956
- Isabelle in Dinner With the Family, New Theatre, December 1957
- Penelope in Last Day in Dreamland and A Glimpse of the Sea, Lyric Hammersmith, November 1959
- Susan Roper in Breakfast for One, Arts Theatre, April 1961
- Feemy Evans in The Showing Up of Blanco Posnet, and Lavinia in Androcles and the Lion, Mermaid Theatre, October 1961
- Estelle in In Camera (Huis Clos), Oxford Playhouse, February 1962
- Ophelia in Castle in Sweden, Piccadilly Theatre, May 1962
- Hilary in The Sponge Room, and Elizabeth Mintey in Squat Betty, Royal Court, December 1962
- Isabelle in The Love Game, New Arts Theatre, October 1964
- Countess Sophia Delyanoff in A Patriot for Me, Royal Court, June 1965
- Anna Bowers in A Lily in Little India, Hampstead Theatre Club, November 1965
- Imogen Parrott in Trelawney of the Wells, National Theatre at the Old Vic, August 1966
- Katerina in The Storm, National Theatre at the Old Vic, October 1966
- Pamela in Time Present, Royal Court, May 1968 at the Duke of York’s Theatre, July 1968 (for which she won the Variety Club and Evening Standard Awards for Best Actress)
- Anna Bowers in Three Months Gone at the Royal Court in January 1970; at the Duchess Theatre in March 1970,
- Frederica in West of Suez, Royal Court, August 1971; Cambridge Theatre, October 1971
- Hedda in Hedda Gabler, Royal Court, June 1972
- Amanda in Private Lives (briefly taking over for Maggie Smith), Queen's Theatre, June 1973
- Leslie Crosbie in The Letter, Palace Theatre, Watford, July 1973
- Isobel Sands in The End of Me Old Cigar, Greenwich Theatre, January 1975
- Fay in Loot, Royal Court, June 1975
- Sally Prosser in Watch It Come Down, National Theatre at the Old Vic, February 1976 at the National Theatre at the Old Vic; March 1976 at the Lyttelton Theatre
- Mrs. Shankland and Miss Railton-Bell in Separate Tables, Apollo Theatre, January 1977
- Mrs. Tina in The Aspern Papers (1978); The Queen in The Eagle Has Two Heads (1979); and Maggie Cutler in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1979); all at the Chichester Festival Theatre
- Gertrude in Hamlet, Royal Court, April 1980
- Alice in The Dance of Death, Royal Exchange Manchester, October 1983
- Janine in Infidelities, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 1985; at the Donmar Warehouse in October 1985; and revived at the Boulevard Theatre in June 1986
- Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Stuart, Edinburgh Festival, August 1987
- Miss Singer in Exceptions, New End Theatre, Hampstead, July 1988
- Anne in Poor Nanny, King's Head Theatre, March 1989
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