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PAUL DONOVAN recommends a great production of an immaculate adaptation, delivered with tremendous power by an excellent cast
[Marc Brenner]

The Mirror and the Light
Gielgud Theatre

THIS production of the Mirror and the Light represents a brilliant final part of the trilogy of plays tracking the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell.

It has been a while in arriving, coming seven years, after the dramatisation of the first two books Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies.

This time the star of those plays, Ben Miles plus director Jeremy Herrin, have collaborated with writer Hilary Mantel to bring this production to the stage.

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