Theatre--Performance (Cast Interview)

This is another in a continuing series of interviews with the cast of THE COMPLETE WOMEN OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, opening Friday, June 8th at 8 pm.

FIVE QUESTIONS WITH: ALICIA ROBERT (ALI)

1. Who do you play in The Complete Women of William Shakespeare?
          I play Desdemona from Othello.

2. What is your role in Second Best Bed and/or When Shakespeare’s Ladies Meet?
          As my mother likes to say "If I can't set a good example, let me serve as a horrible warning." I think that about sums up what Desdemona serves here...she is a great tale of caution.

3. Favourite Scene to play? Favourite Line?
           Just watching Ophelia in Ladies is a joy. What a fun character in this show!!

4. Through your character's eyes, what are Second Best Bed and When Shakespeare’s Ladies Meet about?
           "Ladies" is a great display of how different yet the same love is for everyone, even those awfully dysfunctional folks from the Bard's mind.

5. What do you hope audiences take away from these two shows?
          A new appreciation and understanding of the humanity Shakespeare wrote with and about. A remembrance that he was, besides a playwright and innovator, a human being. And a good laugh. And hopefully no nudity...