THE OTHER SOLOS are a series of Shakespeare monologues that deal with issues of identity, migration, power and exile, performed by actors whose mother tongue is not English. This project was developed in response to recent world events and the increasing sentiment against migration in the media and Western society.

Henry VIII, Act II, Scene IV
Queen Katherine of Aragon makes her plea to the English court for being rejected by King Henry the VIII.

Paula Rodríguez, Spain

I desire you do me right and justice;
And to bestow your pity on me: for
I am a most poor woman, and a stranger,
Born out of your dominions; having here
No judge indifferent, nor no more assurance
Of equal friendship and proceeding. Alas, sir,
In what have I offended you? what cause
Hath my behavior given to your displeasure,
That thus you should proceed to put me off,
And take your good grace from me? Heaven witness,
I have been to you a true and humble wife,
At all times to your will conformable;
Ever in fear to kindle your dislike,
Yea, subject to your countenance, glad or sorry
As I saw it inclined: when was the hour
I ever contradicted your desire,
Or made it not mine too? Or which of your friends
Have I not strove to love, although I knew
He were mine enemy? Sir, call to mind
That I have been your wife, in this obedience,
Upward of twenty years, and have been blest
With many children by you: if, in the course
And process of this time, you can report,
And prove it too, against mine honour aught,
My bond to wedlock, or my love and duty,
Against your sacred person, in God's name,
Turn me away; and let the foul'st contempt
Shut door upon me.

The Team
Paula Rodriguez, Producer and Director
Dominik Webb, Filmmaker
Patricia Rodriguez, Producer
Ben Naylor, Text coach
Carmen Marrero, Music

The Cast
Lise Aagaard
Liraz Chamami
Hervé Goffings
Paul Mauch
Konstantinos Kavakiotis
Paula Rodríguez

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