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DR WHO's beautiful assistant Romana takes a trip back in time tomorrow night.<br />
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Actress Lalla Ward, who plays the Doctor's time travel companion, stars as Ophelia in one of Shakespeare's best-known plays, Hamlet (BBC 2, Sunday, 7.15).<br />
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Lalla, 28, says: "It is the first time I have done any Shakespeare and it was all pretty terrifying.<br />
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"Playing in Shakespeare is every actor's dream, but I've never been so frightened as I was at the first rehearsal.<br />
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Love<br />
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"If I am any good at all it's thanks to the rest of the cast. Everyone was lovely and helpful to me."<br />
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The star-studded production is led by Derek Jacobi as Hamlet, Claire Bloom as his mother, Gertrude, and Eric Porter as Polonius, Ophelia's father.<br />
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In the play Ophelia goes mad and drowns herself because Hamlet does not return her love.<br />
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Lalla says: "She is the sort of girl who would have lived happily ever after if she had married the right man."<br />
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And an unhappy love affair is something Lalla knows about.<br />
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She dropped out of acting and went to France for 12 months after her romance with a married actor ended in 1978.<br />
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She says: "I don't think he was ready to get deeply involved, but I took it seriously and was terribly upset when we broke up."<br />
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Time<br />
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A new series of Dr Who starts in September, but it will be Lalla's last.<br />
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She says: "I decided it was time to move on and branch out.<br />
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"I was wondering how to tell the producer I would like to be written out, and apparently he was wondering how to tell me he would like me to leave!"<br />
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Caption: LALLA WARD ... a dream role<br />
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