The Mirror Stage

Performed by:

Diarmuid Armstrong

Kévin Coquelard

Bun Kobayashi

Carolina Wilkinson

Written & Directed by Feidlim Cannon & Gary Keegan

Movement Director Eddie Kay

Creative Producer Rachel Bergin

Set Design Sabine Dargent

Costume Design Sarah Foley

Video Design Jose Miguel Jimenez

Lighting Design Sarah Jane Shiels

Composition & Sound Design Valgeir Sigurdsson

Co-Sound Design Fiona Sheil

Associate Video Design Laura Rainsford

Line Producer Evie McGuinness

Production Manager Jack Leitch

Stage Manager Grace Donnery

Assistant Stage Manager Aoife Malin

The Mirror Stage is funded by The Arts Council of Ireland and the Health Research Board Ireland through a Knowledge Translation Award “Psychosis in the Theatre” to RCSI Department of Psychiatry and PSI-STAR, the Psychosis Ireland Structured Training and Research Programme. Co-Produced by Project Arts Centre, The Everyman, Cork and supported by the FutureNeuro Research Ireland Centre for Translational Brain Science. Field:arts: and Fingal County Council

Brokentalkers are a multi-award winning Dublin based theatre company, led by Co-Artistic Directors Feidlim Cannon and Gary Keegan with Creative Producer Rachel Bergin. Brokentalkers was founded in 2001 by Cannon and Keegan after graduating from De Montfort University in Leicester. For over 2 decades Brokentalkers have been making formally ambitious work that defies categorization and have built a reputation both at home and internationally as one of Ireland’s most innovative and original theatre companies.

Their working method is founded on a collaborative process that draws on the skills and experiences of a large and diverse group of contributors from different disciplines and backgrounds. Some are professional artists, performers, designers and writers and others are people who do not usually work in the theatre but who bring an authenticity to the work that is compelling.

They make work that responds to the contemporary world, using elements such as original writing, dance, classic texts, film, interviews, found materials and music to represent that world in performance.

Their notable work includes: Everything Falls (Project Arts Centre, Town Hall Theatre), Bellow (Project Arts Centre, Droichead Arts Centre & The Everyman, 2024) Manifest (Project Arts Centre, 2023) The Boy Who Never Was (Dublin Theatre Festival 2022), MASTERCLASS (Winner: The Scotsman Fringe First Award 2022, Premiered at Project Arts Centre as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2021), The Examination (Premiered at Project Arts Centre 2019, followed by a run in both Edinburgh and Dublin Fringe Festival 2019; Winner of Best Production & Best Soundscape Irish Times Theatre Awards 2020, Winner of Best Production and Best Performer, Dublin Fringe Festival 2019), Woman Undone (Premiered at Project Arts Centre & Mermaid Arts Centre 2018, followed by National Tour 2019 & 2020), The Circus Animals’ Desertion (Dublin Theatre Festival 2016), This Beach (Munich Kammerspiele, Dublin Fringe Festival 2016, followed by National Tour 2017), Have I No Mouth (Dublin Fringe Festival 2012, followed by National & International Tour; winner of Total Theatre Award, Edinburgh 2013) and The Blue Boy (Grand Prix winner, Kontakt Festival, Torun, Poland, 2014).

As well as touring their work regularly throughout Ireland, Brokentalkers have presented their work in Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, New Zealand and the USA. Their work has been performed at prestigious venues and festivals including: Sydney Opera House, Théâtre de la Ville, Festival de Liège, The Malthouse, Irish Arts Centre, Brighton Festival and Southbank Centre.