MW: I think people are curious that after a Wednesday and Saturday matinee, you have a very quick turnaround. How do you perform again in an hour? Do you have a huge breakfast?
RA: The resolution which I have adopted is not drinking. You just have to plan your day and we all do a warm up together, a vocal warmup. You just take it step-by-step. There was a point where I thought I might be able to do a version of the show, a matinee version, which is sort of like a marked version, but it’s simply not possible. The play grabs you by the throat and no matter how much you think ‘I have got to do another one’ you can’t, you just have to play it beat, by beat, by beat. Anna who plays Elizabeth, we looked at each other before the beginning of a matinee and she said to me, “I am going to bring a chair onto the stage with me and see what happens next.” But it’s what Yael always says to us, ‘Let the play happen to you. You can’t decide how you are going to play the play. You have to take it step by step and indeed the play happen to these characters and if you let that happen, you will find yourself in the second show on a Saturday night with a massive rush of energy and the ability to play that final scene.’
MW: So on Sunday, do you sleep all day…?
RA: I’m at the gym at 8 o’clock on a Sunday! (Giggles)
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