George MacKay on Ah, Wilderness!, Peter Pan, and the sands of time
Rising star George MacKay, 23, is rehearsing in a giant sandpit for his latest role, playing troubled teenager Richard Miller in Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! at the Young Vic. "Practically, the sand is not difficult to work on," says MacKay, who is on his lunch break and tucking into home-made chicken and rice from a Tupperware box. "But we do a tums-and-bums workout every morning together on yoga mats with the m…