1970 - 1979

Directs Joan Littlewood’s Oh What a Lovely War, National Theatre School of Canada.

1971

Husband Jack Thorne is transferred within the CBC to become a drama producer in Montreal.

Coghill becomes the first woman artistic director of the English Acting Section of the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal (1971 - 1973).

Mother Dorothy Coghill dies in Vancouver, January 26.

Agiluk in Herschel Hardin’s Esker Mike and His Wife Agiluk and Masonette in Bagdad Saloon by George Walker, with the Factory Theatre Lab tour to England.

Joy in Esker Mike and his Wife Agiluk

Mrs. Miles in Games Played in the Park by Diane Harrison, Theatre Rencontre, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal. Director: Daniel Landau.

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman with the London Little Theatre.

Michael Cook’s Head, Guts and Soundbone Dance at the Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal. Director: Roy Higgins.

Mrs. Purdy in D.H. Lawrence’s The Daughter in Law, Centaur Theatre, Montreal. Director: Elsa Bolam.

Mona Wheally in the movie Shivers, aka Frissons (French title), aka The Parasite Murders, aka They Came from Within (USA title). Director: David Cronenberg.

The American Dream by Edward Albee, Globe Theatre, Regina.

Beckett Trio, Guelph Spring Festival.

Nurse and Matron in Bethune by Rod Langlley, Centaur Theatre, Montreal. Director: Maurice Podbrey.

Martha in Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring, Muskoka Summer Theatre.

Director of Hay Fever by Noel Coward, Muskoka Summer Theatre, Ontario.
Joy in Tartuffe, 1976

Title role in Michel Tremblay’s Forever Yours, Marie-Lou, Theatre Plus, Toronto. Director: Marion Andre.

Gates for Keys, with Dr. Shimon Levy, a reading of Israeli poetry (both Arab and Jewish), Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal.

Sidestreet, television drama series, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Madame Pernelle in Moliere’s Tartuffe, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver. Director: Derek Golby.

Mistress Fowl in the movie based on Mordecai Richler's Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang. Director: Theodore J. Flicker (who also wrote the screenplay). Producer: Harry Gulkin.

Lennoxville Festival in Quebec. Martha Turner in Jill by Lezley Havard and Gramma in Sqrieux-de-Deux by Betty Lambert, both directed by Richard Ouzounian. Maritime tour in September of Sqrieux-de-Deux.

Gypsy in Camino Real by Tennessee Williams, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver. Director: Chistopher Newton.

Abie in Arsenic and Old Lace, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver. Director Chris Newton.

Joy and Janet Brechin in Arsenic and Old Lace. Photo by David Cooper

Marion in Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn, Muskoka Summer Theatre, Ontario. Director: Bernard Hyatt.

A Voice in August Strindberg’s The Dream Play, adapted by Jean Herbiet, Centaur Theatre Company, Montreal. Directors: Jean Herbiet and Felix Mirbt.

Rebecca Nurse in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver. Director: Jean-Pierre Ronfard.

Alfred's Mother in Tales from the Vienna Woods by Odon von Horvath, Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver. Director: Roger Hodgman.

A Delicate Balance, CBC Radio. Director: Rob Chesterman.

Mackerel, by Israel Horovitz, Open Circle, Toronto. Director: Sylvia Tucker.