Tilting The Mirror at the Millfield Theatre: ABC Tales Offer
A Jaybird Live Literature production
in associaton with Millfield Arts Centre
Tilting The Mirror
A man whose love is like an origami swan, a boy who gives his mum a bubble-gum tattoo for mothers’ day, the couple who steal a mirror from a skip under cover of the night. The poems and fiction in Tilting the Mirror brim with characters who are struggling and juggling with love – the finding, keeping and understanding of it.
The specially selected work of poets Jean Sprackland and Greta Stoddart and short story writer Ray Robinson is presented in a lightly staged live literature performance.
Jean’s poems display a subtle, sexy humour says Carol Ann Duffy, while Greta’s are deceptively serene but always musical, always true according to Jo Shapcott. The Guardian described Ray’s writing as wry, ingenuous, hugely compassionate. Jean and Greta are generous and engaging readers of their own work, Ray’s story will be performed by an actor.
As we love our partners, parents or children, Tilting the Mirror will show us our reflections. These poems and stories cast bright lights on the lives and loves of our own.
Directed by Phoebe Hawthorne
Tilting the Mirror is generously supported by Arts Council England
1st and 2nd October at the Millfield Arts Centre
Mention ABC Tales and get two tickets for the price of one.
