A Chronology of Shakespearean Performances

1974

Octavia in Antony and Cleopatra, Duke’s Playhouse, Lancaster

1980

Ophelia in Hamlet, Royal Court Theatre, London

1981–3

Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon and Barbican, London (and All’s Well at the Martin Beck Theater, Broadway, New York)

1982–3

Lady Percy in Henry IV, Parts I and II, Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican, London

1982

Olivia in Twelfth Night, and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, BBC Radio 4

1987

Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

1987–9

Viola in Twelfth Night, and Imogen in Cymbeline, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon and Barbican, London

1997

Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, BBC Radio 4

1998

Tamora in Titus Andronicus, Arkangel Shakespeare (audiobook)

1999–2000

Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Young Vic, London; USA and Japan tour; and Illuminations Films

2002

Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Theatre Royal Haymarket, London; Goneril in King Lear with Paul Scofield, Naxos AudioBooks

2006–7

Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Novello Theatre, London; USA tour

2007

Maria in Twelfth Night, Houghton Hall for Norwich Theatre Royal

2012–13

Brutus in Julius Caesar, Donmar Warehouse, London; St Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, New York City (revived at Donmar King’s Cross, London, in 2016)

2014–15

Henry IV in Henry IV, Donmar Warehouse, London; St Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, New York City (revived at Donmar King’s Cross, London, in 2016)

2016–17

Prospero in The Tempest, Donmar King’s Cross, London; St Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, New York City