BELVOIR ST THEATRE PRESENTS A MIRROR - WRITTEN BY SAM HOLCROFT DIRECTED BY MARGARET THANOS
But nothing is quite as it seems.
Venue: Upstairs Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre
Address: 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010
Date: 21st February – 22nd March 2026
Time: Tuesday 6.30pm, Wednesday 6.30pm, Thursday 1pm & 7.30pm, Friday 7.30pm, Saturday 2pm & 7.30pm, Sunday 5pm
Ticket: $43-$98
Buy / Ticket: https://belvoir.com.au/productions/a-mirror/
Web: https://belvoir.com.au/productions/a-mirror/
EMail: mail@belvoir.com.au
Address: 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010
Date: 21st February – 22nd March 2026
Time: Tuesday 6.30pm, Wednesday 6.30pm, Thursday 1pm & 7.30pm, Friday 7.30pm, Saturday 2pm & 7.30pm, Sunday 5pm
Ticket: $43-$98
Buy / Ticket: https://belvoir.com.au/productions/a-mirror/
Web: https://belvoir.com.au/productions/a-mirror/
EMail: mail@belvoir.com.au
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The hit play from contemporary British playwright Sam Holcroft (National Theatre’s Rules for Living) marks Thanos’ mainstage directorial debut and sees Yalin Ozucelik (Sami In Paradise, Ensemble’s Uncle Vanya) and Rose Riley (The Glass Menagerie) return to Belvoir St Theatre, alongside Eden Falk (And Then There Were None) and Faisal Hamza (Sydney Theatre Company’s The Talented Mr. Ripley).
Under the guise of a wedding, guests will watch an illegal underground performance.
Adem’s a mechanic who’s written a play and naively submitted it for consideration. He’s called to the arts council by a bureaucrat, Čelik, who suspects Adem has potential – if only he can learn to write in the state-approved, patriotic way, instead of telling uncomfortable truths.
Together with his new assistant Mei and national playwriting treasure Bax, Čelik takes his new protégé through a crash-course in how to write a celebrated play for the national stage…
Director Margaret Thanos said, "The play is called A Mirror because a mirror is a reflective surface. And as we have seen in recent times, there's lots of conversations going on about whether art should be for art's sake, whether it should be reflective of the society that we're living in, or whether it should simply just be a vehicle for entertainment.”
Belvoir artistic director Eamon Flack said, “We read this contemporary British play one afternoon and straight away knew we had to do it. It’s like Pirandello and Kafka meet Tom Stoppard, it’s carefully put together, it knows what it’s saying, and it’s very entertaining. There’s a sting in the tail, too. It’s wonderful to have Yalin and Rose back, and to introduce director Margaret Thanos to our mainstage.”
Thanos’ adaptation of A Mirror follows the play’s acclaimed 2023 premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, and its West End transfer to the Trafalgar Theatre in early 2024.
A riveting, unpredictable ride filled with twists and turns, this gripping exploration of art versus power is not to be missed.
Under the guise of a wedding, guests will watch an illegal underground performance.
Adem’s a mechanic who’s written a play and naively submitted it for consideration. He’s called to the arts council by a bureaucrat, Čelik, who suspects Adem has potential – if only he can learn to write in the state-approved, patriotic way, instead of telling uncomfortable truths.
Together with his new assistant Mei and national playwriting treasure Bax, Čelik takes his new protégé through a crash-course in how to write a celebrated play for the national stage…
Director Margaret Thanos said, "The play is called A Mirror because a mirror is a reflective surface. And as we have seen in recent times, there's lots of conversations going on about whether art should be for art's sake, whether it should be reflective of the society that we're living in, or whether it should simply just be a vehicle for entertainment.”
Belvoir artistic director Eamon Flack said, “We read this contemporary British play one afternoon and straight away knew we had to do it. It’s like Pirandello and Kafka meet Tom Stoppard, it’s carefully put together, it knows what it’s saying, and it’s very entertaining. There’s a sting in the tail, too. It’s wonderful to have Yalin and Rose back, and to introduce director Margaret Thanos to our mainstage.”
Thanos’ adaptation of A Mirror follows the play’s acclaimed 2023 premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, and its West End transfer to the Trafalgar Theatre in early 2024.
A riveting, unpredictable ride filled with twists and turns, this gripping exploration of art versus power is not to be missed.