Zoe, you are adorable.
Thank you.
It's so nice to meet you.
Thank you.
How art thou?
Good, thou.
Oh, good thou.
Oh, good.
So you're six years old.
Right?
Yep, I'm six years old.
And tell me how--
what made you excited, or want to learn about Shakespeare?
Well, one time at lunch, I told my mommy,
what does my daddy do at work?
And she replied, he does Shakespeare monologues.
So, and then, I said, well, could I do some Shakespeare
monologues too?
And then she replied, yes.
And then, so and so and so.
And that's what made you like them.
Yeah.
That so neat.
So you do what your daddy does.
Yeah.
I love that.
And tell me some of your favorite Shakespeare plays.
Some of my favorite, favorite, Shakespeare plays
are Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet,
and Macbeth.
You're not supposed to say Macbeth in a theater, right?
Mm-hmm.
Uh-oh.
So what do you do if that happens?
Turn around three times and spit to your left shoulder.
Can you show me what you do?
Sure.
Oh, I was going to hide.
But that didn't work because you saw me.
Oh good, we're all clear.
[APPLAUSE]
That's great.
That's good.
So if I told you a phrase, could you
tell me which play it's from?
Should I try?
Yeah.
OK.
What about this one?
"Twere as good a deed as to--
twere as good a deed as to work when a man's a-hungry.
To challenge him in the field and then make a fool of him."
Work.
Hmm.
Literally the only line I know.
Oh.
It's from Twelfth Night.
Oh.
I was going to guess that.
Oh, really?
I was going to guess that.
I was in that in high school.
I played Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
A-guecheek.
See.
Do you see?
[APPLAUSE]
Guess what?
I wrote a book too.
But I didn't write it with Shakespeare.
I wrote it with my husband, Scott Icenogle.
And it's called Plum.
And it comes out in October.
And it's about how the Sugar Plum Fairy got her wings.
That looks cool.
And when it comes out in October,
I would love to give you the first copy.
[SCREAMS]
OK.
Isn't that cool?
Yeah.
Something else I learned about you, you speak Mandarin?
Yeah.
Is that true?
That's true.
And so, how did that happen?
What six-year-old knows Mandarin?
I go to Chinese school, basically.
Really?
Yeah.
And so, I heard you know a song in Mandarin.
Is that true?
Yeah.
Well, teach me the song.
How does the song go?
[SINGING IN MANDARIN]
Itchy itchy scratchy--
[SINGING IN MANDARIN] That's the part I'm going to teach you.
Oh, great.
I love that.
I tried to pick-- what's the last few words?
[SPEAKING MANDARIN]
[SINGING IN MANDARIN]
You did it.
And what does that mean?
That means, and I don't know why.
I'm asking you because I don't know why.
That means, I don't know why.
But I don't--
I don't know either.
No.
That means, I don't know why.
We're not getting anywhere.
[APPLAUSE]
All right.
All right, so when we come back, Zoe,
you're going to perform a Shakespeare something for us
right?
Right.
But first, I got you a little something.
Do you want to see it?
Yeah.Yeah.
Here it comes.
[SCREAMS] Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
So, Zoe, you're going to put that on
and then you're going to do the little play for us.
What do you think about that?
Quick change.
Right.