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The Mermaid
2020
Strawberry Hills
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Currency Press
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2021
19746413
2020
single work
drama
'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.
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'The Little Mermaid' is included in AustLit because of its influence on Australian-written works.
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First published in Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Første Samling. Tredie Hefte (the first collection of Fairy Tales Told for Children) in 1837.
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