AT THE TRAFALGAR THEATRE, LONDON
A Mirror: West End
By Sam Holcroft, Directed by Jeremy Herrin
Event details
Mon 22 Jan - Sat 20 Apr 2024
★★★★★
“An ingenious drama”
Financial Times
★★★★
The Guardian, The Observer, Time Out, Independent, The Mail on Sunday, Metro, The Stage, WhatsOnStage
You are invited to celebrate the wedding of Leyla and Joel.
Award-winning actors Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting, Elementary) and Tanya Reynolds (Sex Education, Scenes with Girls) return in the “extraordinary and mesmeric” (The Guardian) A Mirror, transferring to the Trafalgar Theatre in London’s West End following a sell-out run at the Almeida.
Would the congregation please stand and swear the Oath of Allegiance.
Writer Sam Holcroft (Rules for Living, Edgar & Annabel) and director Jeremy Herrin (Best of Enemies, People, Places and Things) take audiences on a surprising, entertaining and thought-provoking journey. When creativity and corruption collide, who decides what is art and what is truth?
Also returning to the production is Geoffrey Streatfeild, along with BIFA Winner and BAFTA nominee Samuel Adewunmi who will be joining the cast.
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Evenings 7.30pm
Matinees 2.30pm
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Audio Described Wed 6 Mar 2.30pm
Captioned Wed 13 Mar 2.30pm
Reviews
2023 Almeida Production
Venue Details
Trafalgar Theatre,
14 Whitehall,
London
W1A 2DY
Cast & Creatives
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Cast
Jude Akuwudike
Rob Alexander-Adams
Samuel Adewunmi
Levi Bent
Florence Dobson
Sara HoughtonSara Houghton
Sara Houghton
Theatre includes: The Last Days of Limehouse (New Earth Theatre); The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie (Arcola Theatre); Top Girls (Watford Palace Theatre); Hiawatha; Miss Julie (The Haymarket, Basingstoke); 3000 Troubled Threads (Edinburgh International Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric Hammersmith); Daylight Robbery (Pentabus); The Island (Etcetera Theatre).
Film includes: The 4th Kind; The Omen 666; Doom; Educating the Puppet; The Temple Project; The Honey Trap; Snuff; Howards End; Arabian Nights.
Television includes: Riviera; Angela Black; Damilola; Our Loved Boy; The Sarah Jane Adventures; Doctors; Holby City; London Bridge; Trust; Eastenders; The Eustace Bros; Holby City.
Jonny Lee MillerJonny Lee Miller
Jonny Lee Miller
For the Almeida: Festen; Ink (Broadway).
Theatre includes: Frankenstein (National Theatre, Olivier Award for Best Actor); After Miss Julie (Broadway); Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (West End); Four Knights in Knaresborough (Tricycle Theatre); Beautiful Thing (Bush Theatre).
Film includes: The Covenant; Alice; Settlers; Funny Face; T2 Trainspotting; Byzantium; Dark Shadows; Endgame; The Flying Scotsman; Æon Flux; Melinda and Melinda; Mindhunters; The Escapist; Dracula 2000; Complicity; Love, Honour and Obey; Mansfield Park; Plunkett and Macleane; Regeneration; Afterglow;Trainspotting; Hackers; Meat; Olly’s Prison; Bad Company; Dead Romantic.
Television includes: The Crown; Elementary; Dexter; Emma; Eli Stone; Smith; Byron; The Canterbury Tales; Dead Man’s Walk; Goodbye Cruel World; Cadfael; Second Thoughts; Between the Lines; The Life and Times of Henry Pratt; Minder.
Tanya ReynoldsTanya Reynolds
Tanya Reynolds
Tanya trained at Oxford School of Drama, and last appeared at the Almeida Theatre in Last Words You’ll Hear as part of The Young Friends of the Almeida.
Theatre includes: Scenes with Girls (Royal Court).
Film includes: Emma; Fanny Lye Deliver’d; Undergods.
Television includes: Sex Education; The Baby; The Bisexual; Outlander; Rellik; Delicious.
Geoffrey StreatfeildGeoffrey Streatfeild
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Theatre includes: Watch on the Rhine; The Way of the World; (Donmar Warehouse); Blithe Spirit (Theatre Royal Bath/ West End); Cell Mates; Wild Honey (Hampstead Theatre); Ivanov; The Seagull; The Beaux Stratagem; Children of the Sun; Earthquakes in London; The Pains of Youth; The History Boys; Bacchai (National Theatre); My Night with Reg (Donmar Warehouse/ West End); Macbeth; Copenhagen (Sheffield Theatres); Eigengrau; The Contingency Plan (Bush Theatre); Henry V; Henry IV Part I and Part II; Richard III; Henry VI Part I, Part II and Part III (RSC); Journey’s End (West End); Mountain Language (Royal Court); Nathan the Wise; Merchant of Venice (Chichester Festival Theatre).
Film includes: Making Noise Quietly; The Lady in the Van; A Royal Night Out; Spooks – The Greater Good; Rush; Private Peaceful; City Slacker; Angel; Match Point; Kinky Boots; Kursk.
Television includes: Unbroken; Consent; Anatomy of a Scandal; Life; Traitors; The Miniaturist; Prime Suspect 1973; The Hollow Crown; New Worlds; Endeavour; The Thick of it; Spooks; Point of Rescue; Above Suspicion; Ashes to Ashes; Hunter; Elizabeth I; 20,000 Streets Under the Sky; Midsomer Murders; The Other Boleyn Girl; Love in a Cold Climate; Sword of Honour.
Miriam WakelingMiriam Wakeling
Miriam Wakeling
Miriam Wakeling has worked internationally, in both the studio and the concert hall, enjoying a varied career as a session, chamber and orchestral musician. Miriam has toured extensively around Europe and as far as Moscow and Brazil performing with iconic artists such as Giorgio Moroder, Trevor Horn, Beverley Knight, Pete Tong and The Rock Orchestra.
Theatre includes: Les Misérables; Beauty and the Beast; The King and I; The Sound of Music (UK tour); Cymbeline (RSC).
Performances as musician includes: Oscars Pre Party Concert (Elton John and Dua Lipa); Brit Awards performance (Dua Lipa); Heritage Orchestra; The London Contemporary Orchestra; Bonobo at The Royal Albert Hall, Natural History Museum Livestream Performance (Dermot Kennedy); Bristol Ensemble; The London Symphonic Rock Orchestra; BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge (Yungblud); BBC 1 The One Show (The Vamps); The Engines Orchestra; Soloist for New Creations Collective Ballet Company; Il Divo; The Edison Ensemble; Quartet Volute.
Film includes: Bodyparts (Nainita Desai); Dead Good (with Robert Smith of The Cure).
Television includes: BBC 1 Dynasties 1 and 2; The Royal Mob; Made in Chelsea.
Other work includes: Roger O’Donnell (The Cure) album ‘7 Different Words For Love’ for Cello and Piano and ‘2 Ravens’; Solo Cello for Slate and Ash Landforms 1+2; Secret Cinema Bridgerton.
Sez Wilson
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Creatives
Sam HolcroftSam Holcroft
Writer
Sam Holcroft
Theatre includes: Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox (Nuffield Southampton Theatres); Rules for Living; The Wardrobe; Edgar & Annabel (National Theatre); Dancing Bears (Soho Theatre/ Latitude Festival); While You Lie (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh); Pink (Tricycle Theatre); Vanya (Gate Theatre); Cockroach (Traverse Theatre, Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland nomination for Best Play and shortlisted for the John Whiting Award).
Opera includes: The House Taken Over (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence/ Académie Européenne de Musique).
She received the Tom Erhardt Award in 2009, was the Pearson Writer-in-Residence at the Traverse Theatre, 2009–10, and the Writer-in-Residence at the National Theatre Studio from 2013–14. In 2014, she received a Windham Campbell Prize for Literature in the drama category.
Jeremy HerrinJeremy Herrin
Director
Jeremy Herrin
Jeremy Herrin was previously Artistic Director of Headlong and is a Founding Director of Second Half Productions.
For the Almeida: Children’s Children.
Theatre includes: Best of Enemies (Young Vic/ West End, South Bank Show Award for Best Theatre Production); All My Sons (The Old Vic); The Visit, or the Old Lady Comes to Call; The Plough and the Stars; Statement of Regret (National Theatre); People, Places and Things (National Theatre/ Headlong/ West End/ UK tour/ St Ann’s Warehouse, New York); This House (National Theatre/ Chichester Festival Theatres/ West End); Labour of Love (Olivier Award for Best Comedy); The Nether; That Face; South Downs; Absent Friends; Death and the Maiden; The Glass Menagerie (West End); Wolf Hall; Bring Up the Bodies (RSC/ West End/ Broadway, Evening Standard Award for Best Director); Junkyard; The Absence of War; The Nether (Headlong); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (International tour); The Tempest; Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); Almost Famous (Old Globe, San Diego); Noises Off (Lyric Hammersmith/ West End); Haunted Child; The Heretic; Kin; Spur of the Moment; Off the Endz; The Priory (Olivier Award for Best Comedy); Tusk Tusk; The Vertical Hour; That Face (Royal Court); South Downs; Uncle Vanya (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Moderate Soprano (Hampstead Theatre); Marble (The Abbey, Dublin); The Family Reunion (Donmar Warehouse); Blackbird (Market Theatre, Johannesburg).
Max JonesMax Jones
Set and Costume Designer
Max Jones
Theatre includes: Anna Karenina; A Long Day’s Journey Into Night; Crime and Punishment; A Streetcar Named Desire; Orpheus Descending (Bunkamura Theatre, Tokyo); Jekyll & Hyde (Reading Rep Theatre); The Comedy of Errors; The Shoemakers Holiday; The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC); Noises Off (Lyric Hammersmith/ West End); Sydney and the Old Girl (Park Theatre); All My Sons (The Old Vic/ Headlong Theatre); Meek (Headlong Theatre); Close Quarters (Out Of Joint/ Sheffield Theatres); Love and Information; Queen Coal (Sheffield Theatres); The House They Grew Up In (Chichester Festival Theatre/ Headlong Theatre); Trainspotting (Citizens Theatre); The Hypocrite (RSC/ Hull Truck Theatre, Hull); Pride and Prejudice (Regents Park Theatre/ UK tour); The York Mystery Plays (York Minster); The Crucible; Brilliant Adventures; Miss Julie (Royal Exchange Theatre); The Little Shop of Horrors; Educating Rita; Glengarry Glen Ross; Bruised; A Dolls House; Blackthorn (Theatre Clwyd); Blasted (The Other Room, Cardiff); The Broken Heart; The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe); Play Strindberg (Ustinov Theatre, Bath); True West (Citizens Theatre/ Tricycle Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (NPAC, Japan); Of Mice and Men (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Contractions (Chapter Arts Centre/ Iain Goosey); Pride and Prejudice; A Winters Tale (Re-Imagined) (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre).
Nick PowellNick Powell
Composer and Sound Designer
Nick Powell
Theatre includes: Mary; Raya (Hampstead Theatre); The Glass Menagerie; The Mirror and the Light; The Nether (West End); The Glow; Living Newspaper: Editions 1&3; The Prudes; Bad Roads; Unreachable; X (Royal Court); The Ferryman (Royal Court/ West End/ Broadway, Tony Award nomination for Best Sound Design of a Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design in a Play); The Tell-Tale Heart (National Theatre); Julius Caesar (Bridge Theatre); Beginners (Unicorn Theatre); Peter Pan; Running Wild; Lord of the Flies; Peter Pan (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); People Places and Things (Stockholms Stadsteatern AB); Running Wild (Chichester Festival Theatre); Cold Calling: The Artic Project (Birmingham Rep/ City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra); City of Glass (HOME, Manchester/ Lyric Hammersmith); The Inn at Lydda (Shakespeare’s Globe); Alice in Wonderland (The Lyceum, Edinburgh); The Tempest (Norfolk & Norwich Festival); The Haunting of Hill House (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse/ Sonia Friedman Productions); Lanark (Citizens Theatre/ Edinburgh International Festival, Critic’s Award for Theatre in Scotland nomination for Best Music and Sound); Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies (RSC/ West End/ Broadway); The King’s Speech (Chichester Festival Theatre/ UK tour); Secret Theatre: Show 6 (Lyric Hammersmith); Of Mice and Men (Birmingham Rep/ UK tour).
Azusa OnoAzusa Ono
Lighting Designer
Azusa Ono
Azusa has been creating lighting design for a range of live performances and art forms for many years. She trained in fine arts in Japan and lighting design at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Theatre includes: The Sleeping Tree (Brighton Dome); Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe/ UK tour); Watch on the Rhine; A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Donmar Warehouse); COP27 Health Pavilion (Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt); Much Ado About Nothing (RSC); Can I Live?; Copyright Christmas (Barbican); Walden (West End); Blue Orange; Concubine (Birmingham REP); Lao Can Impression (Southbank Centre); Love Lies Bleeding (The Print Room); Thick As Thieves (Clean Break/ UK tour); Aurora (Toxteth Water Reservoir, Liverpool); Abandon (Lyric Hammersmith); Smack That (Barbican/ UK tour); Effigies of Wickedness (Gate Theatre); Yvette (Royal Festival Hall / UK tour); Cuttin’ It (Young Vic/ UK tour); Killer (Shoreditch Town Hall); Darkness Darkness (Nottingham Playhouse); I Know All The Secrets In My World (Derby Theatre/ UK tour); Dot, Squiggle and Rest (Royal Opera House); Peddling (59E59, New York/ UK tour); We Are Proud to Present…(Bush Theatre); The Love Song of Alfred J Hitchcock (Curve Theatre, Leicester / UK tour); Fanfare (Sheffield Theatres).
Opera includes: Kairos Opera (V&A Museum).
Other work includes: Tate Live Exhibition – Joan Jonas (Tate Modern).
Jessica Ronane CDGJessica Ronane CDG
Casting Director
Jessica Ronane CDG
Theatre includes: Pygmalion; The Dumb Waiter; Faith Healer; Endgame/ Rough for Theatre II; A Christmas Carol; Lungs; A Very Expensive Poison; Present Laughter; All My Sons; The American Clock; Sylvia; A Monster Calls; Mood Music; Fanny and Alexander; Woyzeck; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; King Lear; The Caretaker; The Master Builder; Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax; The Hairy Ape; Future Conditional (The Old Vic); Girl From the North Country (The Old Vic/ West End); The Divide (The Old Vic/ Edinburgh International Festival).
Film includes: Mickey 7; Queer; Longbourn; Rumpelstiltskin; Emma; The Kid Who Would Be King.
Television includes: True Detective: Night Country; The Amazing Mr Blunden.
Molly StaceyMolly Stacey
Associate Director
Molly Stacey
Molly is a theatre and comedy director, and founder of The Man Presents: Women, a comedy monologue incubator for women and non-binary writer-performers.
Theatre includes:
As Director: John Tothill: The Last Living Libertine; Laugh, Why Don’t You? (Edinburgh Fringe); Jinkies! (Camden Fringe, Offie nomination for Best Short Run); Pillow Talk (Edinburgh Fringe/ North American tour); Pen Pals; The Man Presents: Women (ADC Theatre, Cambridge); Two Parallel Columns (Old Theatre Royal, Bath).
As Assistant Director: Peter Pan (The Shipwright); Dick Whittington (West End); Four Go Off On One! (Edinburgh Fringe); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (ADC Theatre, Cambridge); Chester Tuffnut (Polka Theatre).
Clare FosterClare Foster
Intimacy Director
Clare Foster
Clare works as an actor as well as an intimacy coordinator.
Theatre includes: Best of Enemies (Young Vic/ West End); The Realistic Joneses (Theatre Royal Bath); Consent; Avenue Q; The Far Pavilions; We Will Rock You (West End); Travesties; Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory/ West End); Guys & Dolls; The Master and Margarita; Out of This World (Chichester Festival Theatre); Separation; Duet for One; Love On The Dole; A Streetcar Named Desire (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); Crazy for You (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/ West End); The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Sweet Charity (Sheffield Theatres).
Film includes: Heads of State; Seacole; Holmes & Watson; Les Misérables; Black Forest.
Television includes: Delia; Nolly; The Ex-Wife; Dark Heart; Sherlock; Taboo; Galavant; Ripper Street; The Crown.Fiona Parker
Costume Supervisor
Kate Margretts
Props Supervisor
Bryony Blackler
Associate Sound Designer
Ruth HallRuth Hall
Associate Designer
Ruth Hall
Ruth’s work in UK and international theatre includes traditional set and costume design, site-specific and new writing. She also has a special interest in community and education projects.
For the Almeida:
As Associate Designer: A Streetcar Named Desire; The Writer.
Theatre includes:
As Designer: Sydney and the Old Girl (Park Theatre); The Permanent Way (The Vaults); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru); Anna Karenina (East 15 Acting School); Sonny (ArtsEd); 46 Beacon (Trafalgar Studios); Macbeth (Caerphilly Castle); Blackbird (Tor Theatre); A Tale of Two Cities (Royal & Derngate Northampton); Play Strindberg (Theatre Royal Bath); Contractions (Chapter Arts Centre); Fijiland (Southwark Playhouse); Little Shop of Horrors; Salt, Root and Roe (Theatr Clwyd); Noah (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Road to Mecca (Arcola Theatre).
As Associate Designer: Two Palestinians Go Dogging (Royal Court); Blue/Orange (Royal & Derngate Northampton); The Comedy of Errors; The Hypocrite; The Shoemakers Holiday; Henry VI Trilogy; Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest; The Winter’s Tale; Pericles (RSC); Home, I’m Darling (National Theatre/ Theatr Clwyd); Anna Karenina; Crime and Punishment; A Streetcar Named Desire (Theatre Cocoon, Tokyo); Shakespeare in Love (Theatre Royal Bath); Mystery Plays (York Minster); Of Mice and Men (West Yorkshire Playhouse); London Road (National Theatre); Zorro (West End).
Film includes:
As Art Department Assistant: London Road.
Owain Gwynn
Fight Director
Abby Galvin
Casting Associate
Alice WhiteAlice White
Voice Coach
Alice White
Originally from South Wales, Alice is a voice and dialect coach working with professional performers and productions, as well as being Head of Voice at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. She trained as an actor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland before studying on the MA Voice Studies at Central School of Speech and Drama.
For the Almeida: The Clinic.
Theatre includes: Yippee Ki Yay (Seabright Productions); Freedom (March on Selma); Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; This is Not A Coup; Consent; Macbeth; Edward II; Sunday in The Park with George; Moon Licks (Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama); Made in Dagenham; Spring Awakening; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (The Factory Playhouse Hitchin); Boudica (Unicorn Theatre/ Rose Bruford College); Richard III; Henry VI (Wales Millennium Centre).
Film includes: Morning Star.
Access Performances
Audio Described Wed 6 Mar 2.30pm
Captioned Wed 13 Mar 2.30pm
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Artwork photography by Sebastian Nevols. Concept by Émilie Chen.