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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.