Role:            Tegeus
Where:         Genesis Theatre Company
Playwright:   Christopher Fry

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This was the second play we produced and Christopher Cartmill came down and chose that play and
introduced it to me.  (clip) A beautiful play in verse written right after World
War II by Christopher Fry about a woman in ancient Ephesus or ancient Greece
who goes in to die where her husband is buried.  The tradition is that the wife
goes in and starves herself, and dies with him.  So she's going to do that and she
takes her servant in with her to go the afterlife and it's just a conversation between her and her servant and they're sitting there starving to death.  It's very funny - the servant really doesn't want to be there. (laughs)  And in comes a soldier who's guarding a dead body across the way and he sees the wife and they fall in love and he gets her out of the tomb.  I played Tegeus, the soldier. 
JM.com  2007

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"Only James Marsters, as the smitten soldier, however, has an inkling of how to speak the speeches." 
Richard Christiansen · Chicago Tribune ·  Nov 2, 1989