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streatfeild · 2 months

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i‘m in love. look at jlm having the time of his life and geoff just. sitting there

#also: GLASSES??????????? HELLOOOOO YES PLEASE SIGN ME UP???????????#geoffrey streatfeild #jonny lee miller #a mirror #every day i thank tanya

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thekitofit · 1 month

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Geoffrey Streatfeild in A Mirror

declaring it finished. (until i stare at it long enough and find 254656 new things i need to fix)

(please reblog instead of only liking & save an artist's life) (or buy me a coffee)

#geoffrey streatfeild #a mirror #art #mine #my art #procreate #digital art #8.5 hours……. my brain is fried but this was so much fun #can't wait to give it to him 🥺

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soulinkpoetry · 10 months

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You might not recognize yourself, still, have the courage to peer inside ,change what you don’t like and thank them for it.

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#thankful #a mirror #it takes courage #look inside #soulinkpoetry #poetry #thoughts #she writes #feelings #poets on tumblr

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moonyinpisces · 4 months

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RIP to ppl who don't enjoy Grand Duke Crowley, the hottest thing characters can do is be narrative equals and mirrors (and then fuck)

authors have known this since the beginning of storytelling and i eat it UP every single time!!!

#i can’t mention mirrors without thinking of molly hooper i love you coffin of course sherlock’s not saying it to john unless he’s talking to #a mirror #sick sick sickkkkkkk #ask box

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variousqueerthings · 10 days

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@le-red-queen also crucially in "a mirror" there's a point where it's revealed that jlm's character actually wrote the play-within-a-play (in which he portrays the villain that in "the real world" so to speak, targeted him, got him arrested and tortured, and ruined his life)

and the villain is also clearly lusting over his secretary (played by tanya reynolds from sex education), who's also got some war ptsd and bonds with the young playwright (both of them veterans) and eventually sleeps with him

well of course the playwright turns out to be jlm, so he's actually dating this somewhat younger woman, who's also a revolutionary for the cause against censorship, and they make a point of going "ah yes, the illusion is shattered now you can't imagine her with this young hot guy over there, but instead with that old man"

and i was like... sir i come from tumblr. the old man is the appeal

#can you IMAGINE this attractive woman wanting to sleep with JLM's character????#indeed i can #a mirror #jonny lee miller #jlm #tanya reynolds #no but actually it IS part of the illusion of the play-within-the-play #jlm's character deliberately doesn't cast himself as the lead #and deliberately gives that role to a much younger more conventionally attractive man #and his girlfriend goes along with it #it is some very interesting character beat

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possibility221 · 3 months

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#Jonny Lee Miller #The Guardian interview #actor #firefighter #Elementary #A Mirror #Trainspotting

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rentless · 1 year

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#Fatherless #He looks like he saw a qUeEr #A mirror #Emperor Awesome #wander over yonder #he’s a baddie 🤪

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chezlucifan · 3 months

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Slight deviation from David today just because I've just gotten back from watching this play A Mirror with the excellent Johnny Lee Miller

This is a play within a play within a play and is a very funny and thought provoking take on government control and propaganda

I was literally within touching distance of Jonny Lee Miller, how I didn't combust on the spot I don't know , I think I might have had the best seat in the house.

On more than one occasion he was knelt right in front of me, the cast roam along the asiles quite alot during the play for reasons that are only apparent when you watch it. I'd definitely recommend getting a seat in the stalls if you can. If you were thinking about going stop thinking and just do it, it's only on til April. I'm definitely going again and getting the same seat.

#a mirror #jonny lee miller #The 30 year crush is still alive and kicking #He's still beautiful #Such a good cast #Such a good play

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homobrainjuice · 7 months

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are you gay? 🏳️‍🌈

yes 😊

#homobrainjuice #Knock knock #whos there #a mirror #i am lonely

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streatfeild · 1 month

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sure i‘m normal. no i‘m not fainting like a fucking victorian virgin

#SIR!!!!!!!!!!!#geoffrey streatfeild #a mirror #i wanna do him so bad it’s embarrassing

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emergefromthenoise · 8 months

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Art in the times of censorship

You are invited to celebrate the marriage of Leyla and Joel. Dress code in place. Time of the exchange of the vows set. Entertainment will begin shortly after. That's the official version for this gathering. For the Ministry. And Motherland.

What's really happening is: this performance is stage without the licence from the Ministry and players commend your courage and will to participate. The risks are great. Welcome.

A mechanic writing a play - a mirror of his reality. A director of the Ministry of Culture who claims to be a patron of the arts, a benefactor. As long as the art is aligned with what the Ministry says happened. As long as it's art and not the depiction of the real world, because "a mirror is not a painting!". A young woman caught between two men. A celebrated playwright to guide the young mind. Because no one really wants to face the reality or rather relive it for what it is (was) - especially not the ruling regime when the truth is not exactly compatible with the doctrine. Theatre is supposed to be this profound spectacle lifting spirits. It does not raise doubts in the official version of history.

The thing with truth and art? It always finds its way to the surface. Bruised and battered? Maybe. But eventually comes to light...

'A Mirror' is such a careful web, each thread reveals something different, each delivers a gut punch - with finesse and precision, I may add. Layer, after layer, digging deeper - each character searching for... well, something. Artist versus censor. Truths and recollections of events excluding each other. And somewhere between: valuable lessons on how to write a play. How to build characters, arcs, differences between writing comedy and tragedy, character's choices and challenges, what could influence character's change. All excellent points to explore by a playwright. The very same points being picked apart by censors so the play fits the image of a great motherland.

Very Shakespearean (but careful! these books are banned!) - a play within a play exposing truths of a rotten system ('Hamlet'). The tragedy is imminent, the audience knows how the story ends and yet one hopes that this time it will be different, that it will defy the odds, gods and all the chaos between (like one would hope for star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet). A quote from 'Macbeth', completely unmatched with the situation only adds to the drama.

The tension grows and grows throughout the play, until it becomes this heavy knot weighing you down.

It starts small: a little red light at the back of your head as you laugh, a part of the collective ('wedding guests'). It changes hue slightly later: it becomes a chip on your shoulder, but you're still laughing. What danger? The fourth wall doesn't exist. The boundaries are a blur. So it creeps up on you when the grand finale unravels and your heart beats a little too fast. The laughter? A bit forced by then, covering the unease.

Palms sweating as the tragedy peaks right before your eyes. The sense of urgency never leaves you and is fed by the players through 2-hour "ceremony".

Company led by excellent Jonny Lee Miller is playing on the audience's emotions like it's a Stradivarius. Tanya's Mei and Michael's Adem battle their own demons, the reality, lose and find themselves, they shine and burn bright within the tragedy presented onstage.

Sam Holcroft's 'A Mirror' is a whirwind of twists and turns, raising questions about morality, ideals and whether it's better to live on your knees or die on your feet. And how far can one go to silence rebellious voices.

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'A Mirror' by Sam Holcroft. Directed by Jeremy Herrin.

Cast includes: Jonny Lee Miller, Tanya Reynolds, Michael Ward, Aaron Neil, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Miriam Wakeling

Performed in Almeida Theatre London (August- September 2023)

#a mirror #sam holcroft #jeremy herrin #jonny lee miller #tanya reynolds #michael ward #aaron neil #geoffrey streatfeild #miriam wakeling #play #art #theatre #play review #art vs censorship #tragedy #review #new play

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sickly-stitches · 1 year

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anxious autistically packs the most prepared bag in the world for an outing

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bunabi · 2 months

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girl what happened to just creating fanwork to satisfy your needs

going directly to the developers for canonical changes to the work has gotta stop like what happened to boundaries

#all ive talked about for a decade is 'I wish DAI had XYZ thing' and never in my life have I DM'd Mark Darrah like a wish-granting mirror

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389 · 19 days

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Eric Kogan

#photography #birds #art #clouds #sky #mirror #trash #eric kogan #u

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variousqueerthings · 13 days

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okay so I watched two plays this past week, cabaret and a mirror. i also watched hadestown the week before, and it was fucking Stunning, but ive been thinking of how cabaret and a mirror have become pieces of comparison for me in terms of what they were attempting to do (I think I could also compare hadestown and cabaret in a similar way).

i did write quite a long first reaction to cabaret, basically summed up as, it was very good, very talented performers, and very politically safe -- the audience invited to it were always going to be overwhelmingly straight, well-off, and white, because that's how it was marketed and how it was priced, and so accordingly the show didn't seem to want to make that audience feel too challenged by being compared too harshly with the german woman who goes back on her engagement with a jewish man and decides to safely capitulate to the oncoming nazis, by being too called-out by songs like "money makes the world go around" and "if you could see her like i do," and even the idea that if you do not stand up politically when fascists are knocking at your door, then you are supporting fascists (and all this wrapped up in a glitzy, queer circus aesthetic to enjoy voyeuristically)

so it was very interesting going from that feeling to a play like a mirror, which was all abouuuuut censorship! @gjdraws big rundown forya!

spoilers:

we begin with all of us at a wedding -- an officially licenced perfectly legal wedding, is stressed, before the officials leave and we're suddenly directly informed that the play is about to start

as we watch it becomes apparent that the fourth wall isn't there, that we're a part of the performance, that we're watching a play within a play, and that the characters know that the audience is there

the play-within-a-play is a tale of a new playwright who comes up against the force of censorship in an unnamed country. JLM plays both the person clearly putting on the play, and the man who speaks in favour of censorship -- but specifically a benevolent censorship

no truncheons, no "re-education centers," just finding real talent (like this new playwright) and pointing them in the right direction, not writing reality, but inspirational, beautiful pieces

this becomes a problem when the playwright makes it apparent that he just writes what he hears -- he's got a photographic memory, and he's hiiiighly coded as autistic, not quite understanding the underlying messaging he's receiving, that he's expected to write propaganda

this all comes to a head when he reveals that he was there during a famous battle that was lauded as a great victory against terrible odds, but in actuality was indicative of terrible leadership that killed a lot of people -- because he was simply instructed to write about this battle, he writes it exactly as he remembers it...

worse, he keeps transcribing the exact conversation he has with the man who's trying to groom him to greatness, the "minister for the department of culture not the censorship department!!!" this man has secret copies of shakespeare (illegal) stashed under floorboards, will frequently mock other directors, and generally speaks in a way that shows him to be pompous, grandiose, hypocritical, and manipulative

from aspiring playwright to getting arrested and tortured by the police, we then get interrupted by the authorities. everyone in the room has been arrested (audience included) for dissemination of illegal materials. the end

a few interesting, thought-provoking, and/or funny things

the play-within-a-play actually gets interrupted a couple of times throughout, and the sham-wedding hastily re-established, adding a certain danger to the whole proceeding, but also a lot of comedy, as scenes are changed by the actors themselves

a particular Moment is when the man playing the playwright and the woman playing the secretary to "the minister for the department of culture" are about to have sex -- it's steamy and kind of a fun way of playing with the idea of explicit verbal consent- she asks him about how he writes, he says he just puts down what he sees as is, she tells him to narrate what she's doing, up until she kisses him, he narrates his reciprocation prior to kissing her back, then that she pulls down his trousers, before she takes over, narrating that he hikes up her skirt- and then the play is interrupted and they have to hastily readjust their clothes and pretend nothing is happening! followed by her going "uh there was meant to be a sex scene here, but we'll just skip it now," and the actor meant to be coming on next being caught unaware with a drink and a cigarette in his hand

it is a wonderful showcasing of JLM's presence onstage, he's just the mostest! of all time! he gets to play the whole range, villainous in the play-within-a-play, righteous revolutionary when it turns out he's the actual playwright as they all get arrested and dragged away, nervous manic energy whenever the play is getting interrupted, he's serious, he's hammy, he's jittery, he's menacing, he's oafish, he's sincere, he's devastated, genuinely doing it all!!!

the interaction with the audience is what really struck me, specifically in comparison with cabaret -- now obvs one doesn't have to do cabaret with direct audience interaction, and the thing is there was actually a fair bit of it in the pre-show and in the interval, and we have that opening willkommen bienvenue welcome promising the audience that everything is wonderful and perfect (which the subsequent play then negates). but my issue was (much longer in my actual cabaret post) how withdrawn from the audience that musical was. how politically disconnected, how little it felt - to me - like i was actually at a cabaret, or at a show interacting with the audience on a meta level

a mirror was incredibly meta, incredibly in-your-face, incredibly direct and pinpoint accurate in how it wanted to tell this -- the audience were dissidents, but we were also being warned: words have power, plays have power, censorship is a real danger, it already exists, be wary of complacency and when certain kinds of community voices are dehumanised as inherently dangerous ideas...

it was strange coming across this almost by accident, honestly, really because i was going to watch something that jlm was in, and boy was it Something! ive been noting how many narratives like this ive been coming across this year -- most recently hadestown, a mirror, babel, and monkey man all within two weeks. the fight is worth fighting, even though we may not win, or may not change everything at once, the fight is worth fighting, and it's global, it's spiritual, it's words, politics, religion (im sure i'll come across something based in science too). i don't know yet how to internalise these stories in reality, considering the reality we're living in. for now they're simply living alongside reality, whether it's the work i do, or the work and resistance happening around the world. it's not perfect, but the fight is worth fighting

#a mirror #jlm #jonny lee miller #all the actors were great #also i got to talk with two lovely men who sat next to me #i enjoy chatting with strangers #art

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possibility221 · 2 months

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Jonny Lee Miller interviewed by Johnny Vaughan (click MSN link). Skydiving and knife throwing!

#Jonny Lee Miller #Johnny Vaughan #skydiving #Angelina Jolie #Elementary #A Mirror

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