What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Alex: Sunshine, swimming and a good book.
Liza: Spending the day hiking and sea swimming, and the night around a fire playing music.
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Alex: Boudicca.
Liza: Count Cagliostro.
Which living person do you most admire?
Alex: Patrick Stewart.
Liza: My mother, Niamh.
Which is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Alex: Over thinking.
Liza: I can be pretty neurotic.
What is your greatest extravagance?
Alex: An entire wardrobe of clown costumes.
Liza: An entire wardrobe of sparkly jumpsuits.
What is your favourite journey?
Alex: Coastline train in Barcelona.
Liza: The boat journey from Valentia island to the Skelligs.
On what occasion do you lie?
Alex: On my bed.
Liza: When it is not kind to tell the truth.
Which living person do you most despise?
Alex: My evil twin - Xela.
Liza: My evil twin – Zila.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Alex: My dog Chapo.
Liza: My friends.
When and where were you happiest?
Alex: Liverpool Lemon Caravan Summer.
Liza: Camping in the forest on the Costa Brava. Hiking through the Basque mountains.
Which talent would you most like to have?
Alex: Archery, horseback riding and sword skills.
Liza: Accordion, tap dancing, trapeze.
What is your current state of mind?
Alex: Restless.
Liza: Over-stimulated.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Alex: Performing work in front of the great Russian clown Slava Polunin.
Liza: “Think where most (wo )man’s glory starts and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends”
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what do you think it would be?
Alex: A sexy dog or curious pigeon.
Liza: Probably a gannet, or an albatross.
What is your most treasured possession?
Alex: My one good eye.
Liza: A mixed media painting of my friend, Pluton.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Alex: Numb to life.
Liza: Not having any energy.
What is your favourite occupation?
Alex: Patisserie chef.
Liza: Carpenter.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Alex: Kindness
Liza: Twinkling eyes
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
As above.
Who are your favourite writers?
Alex: Terry Pratchet, Roald Dahl, and Phillip Pullman.
Liza: Flann O’Brien, Dostoyevsky, and Leonora Carrington.
What is your motto?
Alex: The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Liza: No guts, no glory.
Baubo Theatre is a newly formed physical theatre company concocted by designers, devisers/performers and directors Alex Hering, Liza Cox, and producer Elissavet Chatzinota.
