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Co-creator and star of "Upstairs, Downstairs," Jean Marsh talks about her role as Viola in "Twelfth Night." Marsh points out that all the characters in the play are in love with love and that they all want loves they can't have. Ellis Rabb plays Malvolio and Rabb says the play is about both the sanity and the madness of love. The actors also talk about the lack of Shakespeare theatre groups in the United States.
British actress Barbara Jefford of the Royal Shakespeare Company discusses her current roles of Lady Macbeth and St. Joan and her reflection of the female roles she portrayed over the years. Jefford was the youngest recipient of the Order of the British Empire for her services in theater and was best known for her role as Molly Bloom in the 1967 film Ulysses.