Brokentalkers present ‘The Mirror Stage,’ a powerful new theatre work created with and inspired by people who have lived through Psychosis.
Brokentalkers invited people with this lived experience to answer a simple question: “When you imagine a theatre show about psychosis, what do you see on stage?”. The answers are memories, and stories of startling clarity that have been woven together with movement, music, and arresting visual imagery to create a performance that attempts the impossible — to make the invisible visible, and the unspeakable speak.
The Mirror Stage attempts to understand what happens when the reality you inhabit no longer matches the reality everyone else agrees on.
Brokentalkers have an unparalleled track record for creating accessible, socially urgent theatre that fosters empathy and gives voice to those too often unheard — from The Examination to Have I No Mouth and The Blue Boy. This new work challenges stigma, deepens understanding, and ensures the conversation continues long after you’ve left the theatre.
Performed by:
Bun Kobayashi, Carolina Wilkinson, Diarmuid Armstrong, Kévin Coquelard and Nikola Beaumont.
Written & Created by: Feidlim Cannon and 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 Mc Guinness
Production Manager: Jack Leitch
Stage Manager: Grace Donnery
Assistant Stage Manager: Aoife Malin
Publicist: Conleth Teevan
Photography: Ste Murray
Promotional and Rehearsal Room Videography: Michael-David McKernan
Voice Recording Engineer: Bernhardt McKenna-Doeblitz
Chief LX: Susan Collins
Set Build: Re-staging
Technical Crew: Peter Bond, Emma Brennan, Gavin Kennedy, Damien Woods, Vincent Doherty
Costume Maintenance: Laura Pendlebury
Vocal Coach: Karen Blanzy
Keyboards: Davide: Sammarchi
Additional Music programming: Nikola Šolaja
Bookkeeping: KSI Faulkner
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.
