All Audience Reviews of A Mirror

★ 4.2 / 5 • Show Ended • Plays

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Kevin Lloyd

A salutary reminder that theatre is an ancient collective rite practised by humans to express and to witness accounts of their societies and their culture. It holds up a mirror to ourselves. Plays are constructed narratives but we take for granted the privilege that these are freely expressed. This ‘Mirror’ reflects on the role of narratives and authorial voice in a tricksy set of tales within tales which feel reminiscent of writers like Vaclav Havel subverting the reality of communist authoritarianism and illustrating deeper truths. Oh and it’s rather wonderfully performed and staged.Read more →

Anastasiia T.

Wow. Just wow! It’s rare for me to be fully involved in a play’s plot, but this one is just something you never expect to see and experience. It’s smart, it’s hilarious, it’s brilliantly written, played and staged. Even though the subject is not original, the creators have managed to deliver it with authenticity and beauty that nothing can compare with. A round of applause for the actors, Jonny Lee Miller is an absolute star. A Mirror is another diamond to add to Almeida’s collection.Read more →

Booked via Stagedoor

Stuart King

Directed by Jeremy Herrin, as it progresses the play takes a dark and eventually absurdist skew, covering censorship, control, thought police, unrequited desire, corruption, jealousy, power play and misogyny. It’s Kafka meets Gogol with a dash of **** Allen and a pinch Agatha Christie and although the denouement is somewhat telegraphed, it is none-the-less effective and sufficiently forceful to give everyone who witnesses it, considerable pause for thought.Read more →

David Roy

Lots of care and imagination on display, and the acting was without flaw. However, the whole was definitely less than the sum of its parts. When the audience was asked to engage for the third time by standing and reciting an oath to the motherland it was definitely one engagement too far. The whole concept promised more and in the end a dystopian authoritarian set up with ‘art’ and censorship on display just didn’t cut it. A disappointment.Read more →

Bilkisu Zhang

Deserves awards and long-run bookings. The setting is great especially if you are sitting at the wedding guest bit - there’s a sense of interaction. The writing is so clever, layer after layer, the topic is so relevant and complex but was delivered in an intriguingly balanced way. The acting from everyone was phenomenal, Jonny Lee Miller was amazing. Don’t want to spoil it - just go and watch it yourselfRead more →

Gordana Markovic

I liked it but I was not amused by this play. Great dialogue and acting, the story line was very good too. At one point the flashing lights and the music was very loud- not very good for people sensitive to this.Read more →

Andrew K.

Powerful, meta, timely. Very clever use of a “play within a play” concept. Stage design deserves its own award. The cast was amazing!Read more →

Jas Purewal

Decent concept, flawed execution and went on too long. Some great moments of dialogue.Read more →

Justin Lynham

Joy and horror mixed up and spun around into a dizzying and entertaining result.Read more →

Mikki Burrell

Multilayered … captivating … intentional … brilliant actingRead more →

Booked via Stagedoor

Adelina simionov

It was quite intense at times, great actors playRead more →

David Jones

Interesting premise and well acted.Read more →

Booked via Stagedoor

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