‘I don’t know how I’m going to get through it!’ Ruth Wilson to perform the same scene repeatedly for 24 CONSECUTIVE hours with 100 men in new play The Second Woman
Ruth Wilson is set to perform the same scenes repeatedly for 24 consecutive hours in her new play The Second Woman.
The actress, 41, will play Virginia in the show performing at London’s Young Vic from May and will act out a seven-minute scene on loop with 100 different men playing her partner Marty.
And Ruth will have her work cut out as the scene will be repeated 100 times in a row, with the star stating: ”I don’t know how I’m going to get through it!’
The play will see each men take on the role of Marty alongside Ruth one after the other, many of whom are volunteers making their stage debut.
To make things even more intriguing, the Luther star will not meet the men beforehand, meeting them for the first time when they take to the stage.
Challenging: Ruth Wilson is set to perform the same scenes repeatedly for 24 consecutive hours in her new play The Second Woman (pictured in 2021)
Ruth told Deadline of her new role: ‘It’s a huge act of stamina. I dunno how I’m going to get through it and that is part of the appeal to me. I will lose any sense of performance as the show goes on.’
She continued: ‘I don’t have any rehearsals with the men, I don’t meet them before… then they come on and it is the first time I would have met them.’
The excited film star went on to add that she finds a thrill in not knowing how each man will react when they meet her.
She added: ‘I always thought that there would’ve been an attempt by me, initially, to perform or to create a character or to entertain the audience, or to look after these men as they come on.’
Tough: Ruth will have her work cut out as the scene will be repeated 100 times in a row, with the star stating: ”I don’t know how I’m going to get through it!’
However that would all disappear as her ‘tiredness and emotions’ get the better of her, noting those things ‘will erode’.
The play is created by Nat Randall and Anna Breckon and is an adaptation of John Cassavetes’ 1977 film Opening Night.
It will see the 100 men follow the same script in which the character Marty arrives in Virginia’s sitting room to apologise for ‘being so crude’.
With Virginia seeking emotional reassurance from her lover, how each man chooses to give her said reassurance is an exploration of gender roles and power dynamics
Wow: The actress, 41, will play Virginia in the show performing at London’s Young Vic from May and will act out a seven-minute scene on loop with 100 different men playing her partner Marty
Press material says of the project: ‘The Second Woman is a unique, cinematic theatre experience in which the stage offers the audience a wide-angle view of the action, while multiple cameras capture and share live close-ups.’
Ruth went on to tell The Guardian of the play: ‘I’m curious about putting myself in scenarios that I have no idea how to anticipate. It’s an endurance test.
‘I don’t know how I’m going to get through it, but that excites me in some way. It’s like nothing else I’ll ever do again or I’ve ever done, it’s an extraordinary once-in-a-lifetime experience.’
On her interest in the role, she added: ‘As an actor you’re always looking for those spontaneous moments that feel alive and fresh and not rehearsed. With this, no matter how much I’ll try to perform as this character, four, eight, 16 hours in that artifice will go and it will be just me up there, at my rawest and most real, not knowing if this is a dream or a nightmare.’
Last year, Ruth received an MBE for her services to drama, with her award handed to her by Princess Anne.
The actress rose to prominence after she was cast in primetime show The Affair as Alison Bailey in 2014 opposite actor Dominic West, 52, who played Noah Solloway, before she left suddenly in 2019.
Achievement: Last year, Ruth received an MBE for her services to drama , with her award handed to her by Princess Anne
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