Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Theatre: The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid
Houston Sinclair
Directed by Ian Sinclair
Devised and performed by Georgia King, Jacinta Larcombe and Ben Gill
The Blue Room Theatre
Until September 7


The earlier of the Blue Room’s Scandinavian double feature is a tricky, erotically charged inversion of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Little Mermaid.
In this version, the mermaid (Jacinta Larcombe) is a teenage girl in an Australian coastal town. She’s a castaway in the small society around her. Her only company, apart from her mother (Georgia King), is the picture of Leonardo DiCaprio above her bed. Then she meets a boy (Ben Gill) who befriends her and invites her to his party. In return, she takes him down to the sea.
Her mother wants to relive her belle-of-the-ball youth vicariously through her daughter, but when reminiscence becomes too too solid flesh, the consequences are heartbreaking and tragic.
Link here to my complete review of The Little Mermaid in The West Australian.



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