She returned to the RSC in the 1992–94 season, playing Lady Macbeth to Sir Derek Jacobi's lead in Noble's controversial production of "Macbeth"; Beatrice-Joanna in "The Changeling"; Mistress Ford in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and Natasha in "Misha's Party". She worked at the Royal National Theatre: playing as a junior member of the company in 1975, as Freda in Sir Peter Hall's Old Vic production of "John Gabriel Borkman" (starring Sir Ralph Richardson, Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Dame Wendy Hiller) and as Maggie in W. S. Gilbert's "Engaged"; in 1995, as Lady Politic Would-Be in Matthew Warchus's "Volpone"; and in 2003 as Dotty Otley in the NT's touring (and London) revival of "Noises Off".