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Eva Robbins
Eva “good times” Robbins was a University of Washing
Theater and English major who spent a summer acting in my production
of Faust Part One. She had already appeared locally in some
University of Arizona workshops, The Underground Theater and
Transformations, but since Faust only had two female roles of
any size we didn’t have much to give her. I had carved
a small part named Barbara out of a handful of lines referencing
an illegitimately pregnant village girl scorned by Margaret
and her neighbors. Strung together into a soliloquy spoken by
Eva in the midst of our third act, it was quite a stirring moment
in the show, thanks to her ability to look astoundingly vulnerable
on stage without once breaking into hysterics. She got to show
up a few scenes later as a wood nymph in the Walpurgis Night
sequence and seemed to have no qualms running around on stage
in a nude body stocking. Then again, Eva was all about “the
good times”, her favorite catch phrase that summer and,
by the time the show closed, everyone else’s too.
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