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'A manifesto for finding your voice and the power that comes with using it.
'…she joined the chorus of the sea-doomed and sung the song that only sirens do, thrashing her tail and howling for herself.
'The Mermaid is a reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, created by an award-winning intergenerational team of teenage and adult theatre makers. Their re-telling traces the journey of a fifteen year old mermaid and her transformation, obsession, sacrifice, self-destruction and self-actualisation. A tragicomedy with a teenage chorus that has a screaming vision for a hopeful tomorrow.'
Source: La Mama Theatre.
Production Details
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Scheduled for production by La Mama Theatre at La Mama Courthouse, 6 - 16 May 2020.
Director: Cassandra Fumi.
Stage Manager: Tennessee Mynott-Rudland.
Composer: Chrisopher Bolton.
Set and Costume Designer: Dann Barber.
Lighting Designer: Rachel Burke.
Dramaturgy: Vidya Rajan.
Assistant Director: Tove Due.
Devised with and performed by Allegra Di Lallo, Harriet Lawson-Acar, An Dang, Theo Boltman, Casper Plum, Margaret Mills, and Emily Goddard.
Production postponed, but not initially cancelled, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
