“The Mirror and the Light,” the third and final book in a series that began with “Wolf Hall” in 2009, is another crowded Tudor panoply viewed entirely through the eyes of Cromwell, whose nature is as labyrinthine as the palace corridors he superintends.
“They will find him armored, they will find him entrenched, they will find him stuck like a limpet to the future.” “Let them try to pull him down,” Mantel writes. Near the end of “Bring Up the Bodies,” the second novel in Hilary Mantel’s Tudor trilogy, Anne Boleyn’s executioner picks up her head from the scaffold and “in a yard of linen he swaddles it, like a newborn.” Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII’s secretary, who orchestrated Boleyn’s demise, is left fearing that he may soon fall victim to his enemies’ manipulation of the king’s fluctuating affections. The further you climb, the harder you fall.ĭirector Jeremy Herrin (This House, People, Places & Things, Labour of Love) and Designer Christopher Oram (Red, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Peter and Alice) reunite to take audiences racing through the blistering courts of Hilary Mantel’s Sunday Times best-seller.THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT By Hilary Mantel
But with the threat of invasion and the King’s legacy tottering, Cromwell is vulnerable and his enemies are poised to strike. And to the disgust of Henry’s nobles, Thomas Cromwell continues his ruthless ascent from the gutters of Putney to the highest rank beside his master.
Jane Seymour must deliver King Henry a healthy heir. Anne Boleyn’s fate has been sealed by the executioner. If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?Įngland, 1536. Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles join forces to adapt the exhilarating and fast-paced conclusion of this thrilling story for the London stage, with Ben Miles reprising his role as the legendary Thomas Cromwell. Now Playful Productions and the RSC bring The Mirror and the Light, the highly anticipated final chapter of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy, to the West End this September. The Olivier and Tony Award-winning Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies were hailed as landmark and must-see theatrical events. Find information on the Gielgud Theatre’s Covid certification policy here. At this theatre, all audience members must bring with them proof of double-vaccination, a recent negative lateral flow test or natural immunity.
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