Ruth Wilson (in a role originally taken by the show’s co-creator Nat Randall) enacted the same brief (farewell) encounter involving a woman called Virginia and a man called Marty on the Young Vic main-stage, playing opposite a different acting partner each time.
A hundred faces in all – a logistical exercise fit for an Olympics ceremony. The immediate relief was that Wilson, 41, survived this Sisyphean task (cleaning and resetting the set each time too) seemingly without collapsing from exhaustion or doing herself an injury.
Small breaks were factored in every eight iterations but, even so, there was no bed back-stage to kip on, while the take-away grub brought in by Marty each time must have presented its own metabolic challenges.
Yet the marathon woman was in consummate, transfixing control throughout and seemed both tired and rejuvenated, even skipping off the stage after a thunderous standing ovation.
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