In 1991, Hale starred opposite Glenda Jackson in "Mourning Becomes Electra", by Eugene O'Neill, at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre. In 1993 she appeared in a production of Alan Ayckbourne's "Absurd Person Singular" at the Theatre Royal, Bath. In 1994 she appeared opposite Rupert Everett in a production of Tennessee Williams' "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre. In 1997, she appeared opposite Alan Bates in "Life Support", by Simon Gray, at the Aldwych Theatre in London. Critic Sheridan Morley wrote in "The New York Times" that Hale, as the bed-bound Gwen, was "supremely touching even in almost total paralysis".