[1] In 1966 she appeared on stage as Audrey Johnson in Countercrime, a play directed by Hugh Goldie, a production later recorded for television.
[3] In 1970, she appeared on stage again, in Keep Out, Love in Progress by Walter Hall, taking the lead, opposite Robert Gillespie.
Reviewing the production in Life, John Leonard found that “Alex Marshall as Arabella steals the series”.
Most girls leave the profession because all their drive, ambition and real love of the theatre are beaten by the humiliation of the dole queue, and by rejection, and having to answer the question from friends and relatives that strikes like a spear through the heart – 'Are you working at the moment?‘“[1]In 1976, Marshall was researcher and script editor for Granada Television’s Crown Court[6] and later went on to direct episodes of the show.
[10] In his memoirs, the actor Norman Beaton recalled Marshall from their time together on Empire Road: “An attractive blonde, she had a disarming smile which concealed a will of iron.”[11] In 1989, Marshall directed a London stage production of Peter King's The Health Farm.