 Tyrone Guthrie, due to direct a season at the new Festival Theatre, Cambridge, asked her to join his company.Her performance as the stepdaughter in Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author" made her the theatrical talk of Cambridge.She followed with Isabella in "Measure for Measure" with Robert Donat, Pirandello's "Naked", the title role in "Iphigenia in Tauris", Varya in "The Cherry Orchard", and Rebecca West in Henrik Ibsen's "Rosmersholm".