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I enjoyed playing Isabella in
Measure for Measure
though we only had mixed notices for it.

I adored playing St Joan, but I would play her now as a real troublemaker.

In the film of
The Dream
the costumes kept being cut down, until I ended up just being sprayed in green paint every morning.

Sally Bowles in
Cabaret.
The thing I learnt from Hal Prince was that the story doesn’t stop for the song, it carries on the story.

Perdita in
The Winter’s Tale
, with Roger Rees as Florizel.

Viola in
Twelfth Night
with Donald Sinden, who was quite brilliant as Malvolio.

Our wedding day, 5 February 1971.

Michael rehearsing in my going-away hat.

Trevor Nunn gave us a lovely advance wedding present by casting us as the young lovers in
London Assurance.

The Merchant of Venice
with Michael as Bassanio. I had this idea of a wig for Portia with lots of curls, and John Neville put his head round my dressing-room door and said, ‘Hello Bubbles.’
That was all he said.

With Finty as a baby.

Michael and Finty on holiday in Cyprus.

Finty in her communion outfit.

Macbeth
was the play that Ian McKellen and I most wanted to do, but initially Trevor Nunn was very reluctant.