“But I will constantly have to adjust the scenario to either balance the power, or not. “Theatre is my domain, my space, and I control the choreography of the scene, so I will have power in that way,” she observes. How Wilson navigates that space, alongside this constant stream of unknown men, many of whom are not actors, plays into another part of the scene: gender. At the end of the day, it will be about two people meeting and how they negotiate that space.” It's not really about the scene itself, it's about the negotiation of the person opposite you. “I am learning a choreography of sorts, which will give me a toolbox that I can use to adapt to whatever gets thrown at me. “It’s a totally different rehearsal process to anything I have ever done before,” she says. Ruth Wilson in Mrs Wilson Steffan Hill // BBC How does one prepare for the same scene played with unknown scene partners, who may bring any and all energies, temperaments and even degrees of stage fright to the production? Not only is The Second Woman a feat of endurance, but it is an exercise in theatrical spontaneity over a gruelling 24-hour period. The challenge here is both evident and multi-faceted. Her diversity of output has been rewarded with two Olivier awards and a Golden Globe and yet still she searches for fresh challenges. She has played classic literary heroines from Jane Eyre to Marisa Coulter, a narcissistic research scientist in Luther and an unfaithful waitress in The Affair, taken on Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler and even played her own grandmother, in Mrs Wilson. Wilson’s body of work speaks to this searching. What I love about this piece – and what I think theatre needs to be, and what I really hope it becomes a bit more – is that it is bold, experimental and challenging.” I'm always interested in the study of performance and searching for something of myself within the characters I play. With this, I knew I had never done anything like it before, and I’m not sure I ever will again. “Ah but I love crazy,” says Wilson, who laughs between sips one of her last coffees before a self-enforced two-week caffeine ban (“that way it will have more effect when I drink it on the night – when I’ll really need it!”). Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play
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