Mirror Teeth
by Nick Gill
by Nick Gill
Mirror Teeth is a visceral and brutally hilarious play that explores themes of prejudice and arms dealing through the lives of a housewife, her gun-selling husband, and their daughter’s new boyfriend.
About The Play
About The Play
The production of Mirror Teeth was nominated for four Off West
End Awards
Best Director – Kate Wasserberg
Best Female performance – Louise Collins
Most Promising Playwright – Nick Gill
Best New Play
THE FINBOROUGH THEATRE IS NOW FULLY AIR CONDITIONED
Jane is a housewife. James sells guns. They live in one of the larger cities in our country and are both terrified of ethnic youths who might well be wearing hoods and carrying knives, or something. All is well in the Jones household, until their sexually frustrated eighteen year old daughter Jenny brings home her new boyfriend, Kwesi Abalo…
A visceral, smart, brutally hilarious play about prejudice, arms dealing, and what it means to be English.
Vibrant 2011 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights is our annual festival of Finborough Playwrights, running from 5-30 July 2011. Alongside Mirror Teeth the festival features a six performance Sunday/Monday run of Nell Dunn’s Home Death, together with a late night season of ten staged readings of ten new works for the stage by ten UK and international playwrights, discovered, developed or championed by the Finborough Theatre.
Playwright Nick Gill makes his professional debut with this new play, previously seen as part of 2009’s Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights.