Steeped in meta-theatricality, A Mirror prompts us to reflect on the status of storytelling, of its place in creating a culture, its manipulation into myth, its power to prick and to prod.
No band. No spectacle. Two performers, a small collection of instruments, and a room prepared to listen.
It’s been almost 15 years since The Book of Mormon premiered on Broadway and even longer since Joseph Smith ‘discovered’ the golden plates that provided the inspiration for the show.
Even the instruments are custom-cool, bare down to the bones like the skeletal relics of orchestras of the underworld.
Cluedo is an energetically performed ensemble farce that either toyed with surprising us, or missed opportunities to do so.