Ruth Wilson - Theatre - Anna Christie

Interviews

Front Row (5 August)
BBC Breakfast
Lottie Moggach, "Why fame leaves Ruth Wilson cold", The Times (9 August), pp. 10-11

Profile

Guardian (via Ruth Wilson - The Placeholder Blog)

Pictures

Press night (wooller.com)

Reviews


Express
"Anna is played rivetingly by Ruth Wilson with a frankness and vulnerability and Rob Ashford’s production sustains the play’s intensity beautifully."

Guardian
"Wilson triumphs in it [the role]: strutting and slumping like a sot but talking in languorous cadences which float questioningly over her unflinching statements."

[another review] "What Wilson captures with seeming effortlessness are the contradictions inside Anna: the aching loneliness of soul, the temporary satisfaction that stems from Mat's love and the final desolate uncertainty as he takes once more to the sea."

Independent
"Wilson brilliantly conveys contrary emotions..."

[a different review] "Wilson is magnificent in every department as Anna. She manages to combine a caustic, world-weary cynicism and a vulnerability to new experience."

Financial Times
"Ruth Wilson is captivating... her Anna has a brittle quality and a smile that breaks across her hardened face then fades as quickly as it came."

The Stage

"Ruth Wilson gives her [Anna] a tough but vulnerable integrity."

The Arts Desk

"Wilson is a perfect foil for Law. Sometimes sultry, sometimes sassy, always sympathetic, her characteristic crooked smile can denote wonder as much as emotional vulnerability. She perfectly captures Anna’s sense of independence as well as her agony."

 

 

Telegraph

"Ruth Wilson brings both toughness and vulnerability to the role of the weary prostitute given a tantalising glimpse of a better life. There is an emotional rawness here..."

Official London Theatre
"Ruth Wilson captures Anna’s hardened self-defence system and independent spirit, which is gradually softened by her affection for Mat."

Sunday Times (Christopher Hart, 14 August)
"Ruth Wilson, as Anna, is mesmerising from first appearance."

The Times (Libby Purves, 11 August)
"Wilson's Anna is a terrific creation. A cynical, wounded, painted barfly, she is softened into wonder by the sea she has never seen before, and reaches a magnificent dignity as her secret unravels."

Samuel West. Theatre - A Number. Television - Law & Order: UK. Radio - I Come From There.

A Number, starring Sam and his father Timothy West, will be performed at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, 4-29 October (via artslink). It previously had successful runs at the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2010 and Sheffield Theatres in 2006.

Stills of Sam from Law & Order: UK "Intent" can be viewed at Simply Television (via @fishmorgan).

Sam reads poetry by Mahmoud Darwish in the Sunday Feature I Come From There, which was repeated earlier this week. It is available on iPlayer for two more days.

Samuel West. Television - Law & Order: UK. Television - Eternal Law. Radio - Dr No. Film - Hyde Park on Hudson. Actors Centre.

Sam guest stars in "Intent", this week's episode of Law & Order: UK. It will be broadcast on ITV1 on Sunday at 9pm (Locate TV).
The SFX website has featured some excerpts and a picture from an article about Eternal Law in issue #212. The show will be be broadcast on ITV1 early next year.

The Saturday Play Dr No will be repeated on BBC Radio 4 this week.

Hyde Park on Hudson is currently filming. A few days ago, Sam shared a picture of motorcycles on the set.


And a tweet about the classical duologues workshop he taught at the Actors Centre on 25 July:

"Just done all-day workshop at the Actors' Centre, working on Shaw, Wilde, Strindberg, Chekhov and Shakespeare. Have classical fatigue."

Reminder: he is the narrator for From the Ridiculous to the Sublime, a concert that will take place at Kings Place on 15 September