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It was performed at London's Royal National Theatre with Eileen Atkins who won best actress in the Laurence Olivier Awards for the role.

[citation needed] Scenes from a Marriage was performed in January 2008 at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, directed by Trevor Nunn, with Iain Glen and Imogen Stubbs.

[15] Nunn recast the production for its West End season at the St James Theatre in 2013; Olivia Williams and Mark Bazeley played the warring couple.

[17] The Female of the Species, based on events in the life of Germaine Greer,[18] opened in the West End at the Vaudeville Theatre in July 2008, directed by Roger Michell and starring Eileen Atkins.

In its depiction of women as variously pompous, deluded, self-obsessed, hypocritical, sexually obsequious or just plain crazy, it comes closer to being antifemale.

A new production of Switzerland was produced at the Geffen Theatre in 2015 directed by Mark Brokaw and starred Laura Linney in the Highsmith role.

The play, a one-woman drama about Julia Gillard, Australia's first female prime minister, then went on to seasons in Melbourne and Canberra.

Directed by Sarah Goodes and starring Justine Clarke and Jessica Bentley, the production played in Melbourne and Canberra in mid-2024,[29][30] and was presented by the State Theatre Company South Australia in Adelaide in August 2024.

[33] However, Murray-Smith feels that within Australia, and especially at the Sydney Theatre Company, her work and that of other Australian writers, e.g., David Williamson's, is insufficiently supported.