A MIRROR

About the show

Adem’s a mechanic who’s written a play, and naively submitted it for consideration. He’s called to the arts council by a bureaucrat, Čelik, who suspects Adem has potential – if only he can learn to write in the state-approved, patriotic way, instead of telling uncomfortable truths. Together with his new assistant Mei and national playwriting treasure Bax, Čelik takes his new protogé through a crash-course in how to write a celebrated play for the national stage… Theatre, politics, war, egotism, bureaucracy are all neatly skewered in this comedy. But Adem, Čelik, Mei and Bax are not what they seem. And we, the audience, aren’t either. In fact, in this gem of contemporary playwrighting, nothing is quite what you think it might be. Clever, hilarious, serious, it’s a mirror. But just what world are we looking at?