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Maggie McCarthy on playing a small role within a larger company
Playing the relatively small role of Ursula (Hero’s maid), gives Maggie McCarthy a lot of freedom with what she does with the character, but she still has a key role to play within the collaborative environment of the rehearsal room. |
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| Ursula as a wet nurse
Maggie McCarthy – having little to go on in the text – did research into roles that women had as servants in Elizabethan houses. She decided that she would play the character as Hero’s wet-nurse, who had brought her up from the time she was a baby. |
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| The role of serving women in an Elizabethan household
Maggie McCarthy found out that servants in an Elizabethan house were taken care of quite well, and treated much more like a member of the family than servants were in, say, Victorian times. |
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