The Mirror and the Light London Reviews and Tickets

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Ambitious, Clever, Great acting, Masterful, Great writing

About the Show

The final chapter of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall Trilogy set in sixteenth century Britain.

Following the success of Hilary Mantel's historical fiction novels "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies", the RSC presents the final part of the Wolf Hall trilogy. "The Mirror and the Light" follows the period after Anne Boleyn's death in 1536. Ben Miles ("The Crown") returns as Thomas Cromwell.

Show-Score Member Reviews (1)

Great writing, Great acting, Masterful, Clever, Ambitious

See it if you enjoyed Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, you appreciate good acting.

Don't see it if you want some light entertainment, a jukebox musical or a short show.

Critic Reviews (5)

This is absolutely not a weepie tragedy, but a fast, often very funny political thriller...But although Herrin’s production zips through all this in a relatively short space of time, it never feels perfunctory.
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Yet it seems hand-stitched to delight those who love historical drama served up without a heavily mediating modernity or, that increasing bane, woke-inflected judgmentalism.
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Hardcore Mantel fans will no doubt still want to see how their vision compares. Everyone else would be better off with the book or audiobook — set at the right speed, of course.
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This is an accomplished production in many ways, but, almost too focused on the task at hand, it lacks emotional heft, skips too quickly over key scenes and can’t ever fully escape the shadow of the axe.
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The Mirror and the Light dramatises – supremely well – the concluding volume in Hilary Mantel’s award-winning trilogy about Thomas Cromwell...
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