In July 2008, she returned to the National to appear in "...some trace of her", Katie Mitchell's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot", co-starring Ben Whishaw at the Cottesloe Theatre, while later in the year she played Mary in T.S. Eliot's "The Family Reunion" at the Donmar Warehouse. She returned to the National in April 2009 to play Kay Conway in Rupert Goold's production of J. B. Priestley's "Time and the Conways" in the Lyttelton auditorium and also Dawn in Caryl Churchill's "Three More Sleepless Nights" in the same season.