Play with love... SAMANTHA: Ziggy had found another tack. "I’ve analysed the total time Romeo and Juliet spent together,' he told us. 'It can’t have been more than six hours, tops. There are only 267 lines between them. 267 lines! One hundred and fifty to her, and a hundred and seventeen to him. You’d say more on a good night in a bar trying to chat up Pamela Anderson! Although I’ve heard it can be done in less..."

Being cast as Juliet in Shakespeare's greatest love story is one thing, if you were to reprise the role four more times, with each production directed slightly more eccentrically than the last, then you'd think a whole world of performance possibilities would open up for you. Along the way though, wouldn't you learn a little something about love as well?

'Discovering Juliet' is a one-woman romantic comedy where we meet Samantha Reynolds, an actress who learns about life and love via her continual exploration of Shakespeare's most famous heroine.

Samantha, female, aged early twenties.

Sixty minutes.

La Mama Theatre, Melbourne, Australia in July 2000.

Directed by Paddy Lane.

Cast: Sarah Ford

"There are some wicked satirical portraits of artistic self-indulgence... The playwright brings the sharp and satirical eye of the post-colonial to bear on sacred Shakespearian territory..." Helen Thomson, The Age, August 1, 2000.