Following Oliver and Tony Award-winning productions of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, hailed as a landmark and must-see theatrical event on both sides of the Atlantic, Mantel and Ben Miles have adapted the trilogy’s exhilarating conclusion, The Mirror and the Light, for the stage. Hilary Mantel’s twice Booker Prize-winning trilogy is the outstanding literary achievement of recent times. But what will you do, an astute witness asks, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith’s son from the gutters of Putney, has knocked down everyone in his path: established at the right hand of the king, he is now the second most powerful man in England. it now befalls Jane Seymour to deliver King Henry VIII the healthy heir he craves. Anne Boleyn’s fate has been sealed by a hired French executioner. Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles’ exhilarating stage adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, one of 2021’s must-see theatrical events, and the long awaited conclusion to the Oliver Award-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy.Įngland, May 1536.
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