Tales from the Vienna Woods
Simultaneously Blethyn continued working on stage and in British television. Between 1990 and 1996, she starred in five different plays, including "An Ideal Husband" at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, "Tales from the Vienna Woods" and "Wildest Dreams" with the Royal Shakespeare Company and her American stage debut "Absent Friends", for which eventually received a Theatre World Award for Outstanding New Talent. She played character parts in the BBC adaptation of Hanif Kureishi's "The Buddha of Suburbia" and the ITV cricketing comedy-drama series "Outside Edge", based on the play by television writer Richard Harris. Blethyn also performed in a variety of episodes of "Alas Smith &amp; Jones" and "Maigret".