Edited sentence: Her record 5 Best Actress theatre awards from the Evening Standard are for the Peter Shaffer double-bill, "The Private Ear and The Public Eye" (1962), opposite her good friend Kenneth Williams; for her miraculous performance in Ingmar Bergman's production of Hedda Gabler for the National Theatre in 1970; for her triumphant return to England (after 4 years in Canada and Hollywood) playing Virginia Woolf in Edna O'Brien's "Virginia" (1981); for perhaps her greatest comedy performance as Millamant in William Gaskill's production of Congreve's Restoration play, The Way of the World (1984), opposite her friend Joan Plowright; and for one of her most harrowing performances as "A" in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women in 1994, a performance she returned to again in 1995, and which also won the 1994 Variety Club of Great Britain's Best Actress award.She also continued her professional relationship with Peter Shaffer in the National Theatre Production of Black Comedy, and in Lettice and Lovage (winning her the Tony award).She holds the record in the British theatre for the most Best Actress Evening Standard Awards, beating even Judi Dench and Vanessa Redgrave, with 5 awards in total, from 1962 to 1994.She subsequently had a close association with Edward Albee's work, directed by Anthony Page in 1996 with A Delicate Balance and in 2007 with The Lady from Dubuque