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