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Notre Dame alumna and Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson MBE returns to the London stage in June but if you want to see her, you need to act quickly to secure your tickets!
Ruth is starring opposite Academy Award-nominated Michael Shannon in A Moon for the Misbegotten at the Almeida Theatre, Islington from Tuesday 17th June to Saturday 16th August. A drama in four acts by Eugene O’Neill, the play is a sequel to the events in O’Neill’s A Long Day’s Journey Into Night and is about a doomed man’s guilt and the woman who tries desperately to love him. Directed by multi-Olivier award winner Rebecca Frecknall (A Streetcar Named Desire, Cabaret), the play is considered a masterpiece for its vivid characterisation of rural American hardship.
It’s the second Eugene O’Neill play for Ruth, who won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in the 2011 revival of Anna Christie at The Donmar Warehouse, playing opposite Jude Law.
Ruth, 43, left Notre Dame in 1998 and studied History at the University of Nottingham before going on to the London Academy of Dramatic Art. Since graduating in 2005, she has been a regular on stage and screen, with other standout roles including Alice Morgan in the BBC crime drama Luther, Alison Bailey in Sky Atlantic’s The Affair and Hedda Gabler in the National Theatre’s production of the Ibsen classic in 2017. She was appointed MBE for Services to Drama in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2021.
Early performances for A Moon for the Misbegotten are already sold out but there is still availability from mid-July to the end of the run so if you’d like to see one of our most celebrated actresses on the London stage go quickly to https://almeida.co.uk
