The Mermaid is a visual feast of a play, based on one of H. C. Andersen’s best loved and most enticing fairytales – The Little Mermaid. In a trail-blasting Danish-Swedish co-production, theatre Kaleidoskop and Cirkus Cirkör have joined forces to create an international performance about the mermaid and her great love. Top circus performers, dancers and actors captivate the audience with a sensory bombardment of artistry, drama and contemporary circus art at its highest level. Follow the fantastical struggle of the mermaid at Dansens hus in Stockholm.

Director Katrine Wiedemann:
“We want to tell a story of undiluted magic and raw emotion. Gone is the saccharine idealisation. What’s left is Andersen’s poetic, unsettling and infinitely beautiful account of the little mermaid’s longing for the prince’s love and an immortal soul – a tale of elements that can never be united.”

Director: Katrine Wiedemann
Circus director: Tilde Björfors
Scenography: Martin Tulinius
Cast:
The mermaid - Melinda Kinnaman
The prince - Dag Andersson
The princess - Molly Saudek
The which - Anna Lagerkvist
Andreas Skjönberg, Becki Methinée Wongtrakoon, Olle Strandberg, Andreas Falk, Emanuel Tiger, Ingela Hinas, Karin Kriström,Mira Björkman


Runs from
Runs from 23 of december - 7 of january 2007 at South Bank Centre in London.
Ticets:
www.rfh.org.uk/main/series/343.htm