Mirror Teeth
From: Tuesday, 5th July 2011
To: Saturday, 30 July 2011
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
James and Jane are married, middle-aged and middle-class. They live in one of the larger cities in our country. She is a housewife, he sells guns and they are both afraid of ethnic youths who wear hoods and carry knives. All is well in the Jones household, until their sexually frustrated eighteen year old daughter Jane brings home her new boyfriend, Kwese Abalo... An hilarious, surreal, and disturbing examination of the truths behind political correctness and middle-class morality.
Our Review:
28 July 2011
In the grand scheme of theatre productions, Mirror Teeth doesn’t stand out on premise – a modern day commentary told via a middle class family… sound familiar?
The difference, however, between Nick Gill’s Mirror Teeth and the many other plays that attempt a commentary on modern-day life, is that it actually achieves satirical accuracy, right down to the almost audible capitalisation of the institutions of Our Country.
Mirror Teeth is so blunt, and yet at times so obscure, it leaves the audience reeling slightly even as they applaud the rising of the house lights. It is biting without being overly-facetious, it is complex but not simply for the sake of being so.
This morality satire opens with an introduction to the Jones – an 'every family’ offering each other the usual banalities of the day. Yet instead of expected bland words there are truthful, racism, sex-filled statements offered ...
Creative
Nick Gill (Author)
Brawl (in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre) (Producer)
Kate Wasserberg (Director)
Philip Lindley (Design)
Ruth Hall (Costume)
Tom White (Lighting)
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