When creativity and corruption collide, who decides what is art and what is truth?
Second Half Productions have announced that Sam Holcroft’s (Rules for Living) critically acclaimed new play A Mirror will transfer to the West End from January 2024. Directed by Jeremy Herrin (Best of Enemies; People, Places & Things,), the sold-out hit which originally premiered at the Almeida Theatre in August 2023, will run for 13 weeks at the Trafalgar Theatre,London.
BIFA Award-winner and BAFTA award-nominee Samuel Adewunmi (You Don’t Know Me; Trouble in Bluetown) makes his West End debut as Adem, starring alongside Olivier Award-winner Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting; Elementary) and Tanya Reynolds (Sex Education; Scenes with Girls) who will reprise their roles as Čelik and Mei in the West End transfer. Geoffrey Streatfield (Watch on the Rhine; Anatomy of a Scandal) also returns as Bax.
Nominated for Best New Play at the 2023 Evening Standard Awards, Sam Holcroft’s A Mirror is a powerful and entertaining exploration of censorship, authorship, free speech and art as a form of resistance, set against the backdrop of an authoritarian state. Audiences will be taken on a surprising, entertaining and thought-provoking journey.
Running for a strictly limited season, don’t miss this thrilling and “brilliantly mischievous” new play. At the Trafalgar Theatre from 22 January, with opening night on 1 February 2024. Tickets start at £20 with 10,000 seats available at £50 and under throughout the run. Tickets will be on general sale from 10am on 30 November 2023.
A Mirror is produced by Second Half Productions and the Almeida Theatre, Rodeo Productions / Tilted, Winkler & Smalberg, Trish Wadley Productions & Sayers and Sayers Productions.
A Mirror
Written by Sam Holcroft | Directed by Jeremy Herrin
Trafalgar Theatre,14 Whitehall, London SW1A 2DY
First Preview: 22 January 2024, 7.30pm
Opening Night: 1 February 2024 - 20 April 2024
Further Information & tickets: A Mirror (amirrorwestend.com)