Rex Ryan

For that moment, it's so emotionally charged.

So you've got five minutes before the verdict of the special criminal court.

You have an unknown quantity, which is good to start with that.

And you've got an emotional high point.

You've got a man who genuinely doesn't know if he, depending on one sentence from an individual, he will see his family or he'll go to prison for life.

Then I suppose it was a vehicle that allowed me to place me as him in that cell.

I played him as 60 years old at the start, bit of a stretch.

Me in that cell and the five minutes ticking down, then it goes to four minutes, then they're calling him three minutes, two minutes, one minute, and the play goes into his mind.

He has...

he basically has a moment where he goes into his mind and time stops.

And for 55 minutes, an angel of death takes him through the high and low points of his life.

So what the play actually ends up turning into is a reckoning with himself.

Is he guilty or innocent for his entire life?

And then by the end of the play, he can walk out in front of the judges, reconciled that no matter what happens, he can stand there and feel

some sort of groundedness for everything that's happened over the last 60 years.

And that's what the play examines.

Like I said, it was exceptionally helpful for me.

Yes, you've just given away the entire premise.

TV series thanks well look there you go you're spot on yeah I think there's a there's a there's a an absolute marriage if you if you can if you if you

take a little bit of dramatic license in some places.