Mirror Theatre Ltd

IN THE VERY DIFFICULT YEAR OF 2020 DURING COVID, THE MIRROR THEATER WAS ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF "ZOOM" THEATER SINCE ALL PUBLIC GATHERINGS INDOORS WERE NOT POSSIBLE/ALLOWED.EVE POMERANCE, OUR CASTING DIRECTOR, PULLED TOGETHER A DAZZLING CAST FOR HANDS OF LIGHT, A TIMELY PLAY ABOUT A KING MIDAS CHARACTER, A GREEDY AND SELFISH LEADER, FOR A PRESENTATION OF A BERNARD POMERANCE PLAY WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN PRODUCED.WE REHEARSED FOR TWO WEEKS WITH A TRULY BI-NATIONAL CAST - SINCE IT WAS ALL ONLINE WE HAD ACTORS IN THE UK AS WELL AS THE US AND CANADA - OUR ZOOM WAS TAKING PLACE IN THE AIR OVER 7000 MILES OF PLANET. THEY WERE PAID A VERY MODEST STIPEND AND RECEIVED NO CONTRACTS AS THIS WAS NOT CONSIDERED A UNION ACTIVITY AT THIS TIME.THE SHOW WAS "ZOOMED" ONLINE FOR FOUR PERFORMANCES: AUG 20,21,22 AND 23RD, 2020, STREAMED ONLINE, ON VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO, ON A LOCAL TV STATION, FOOTPRINT TV, ON FACEBOOK. WE RAISED MONEY FOR THE LOCAL BATTERED WOMAN CHARITY, AWARE. OUR OWN DAVID BECK COMPOSED MUSIC.WE HAD AN AMAZING CAST - WE HAD IAN LITHGOW, JOHN LITHGOW'S SON, JAIMIE HARRIS, SON OF RICHARD HARRIS - BOTH EXTRAORDINARY ACTORS WHO WERE NEW TO US, THE SINGING OF A CHILD, MINA CUESTA, WHOSE PARENTS PRODUCE THE TV SHOW "HOMELAND", AND SO MANY OTHERS FROM MIRROR IN NY AND GAAR IN THE SUMMER. THE SHOW WAS REMARKABLY GOOD AND BETWEEN THE FOUR DIFFERENT HOSTING SITES, THE SHOW WAS SEEN BY 100,000 PEOPLE LOCATED LITERALLY ALL OVER THE WORLD.