Mermaid (NHB Modern Plays)

Mermaid (NHB Modern Plays)

by Polly Teale
Mermaid (NHB Modern Plays)

Mermaid (NHB Modern Plays)

by Polly Teale

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Overview

A bold reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen's tale of love, loss and desire, transported to a contemporary setting.

Beneath the ocean's waves there is no death or pain or separation. Above, the modern world is beset with war, poverty and desire.

On her sixteenth birthday, a mermaid rises up to the surface, leaving her childhood behind for ever when she falls in love with a mortal prince. She knows that she can no longer live at the bottom of the ocean - but must she destroy herself in order to be loved?

Polly Teale's Mermaid was first performed by Shared Experience and Nottingham Playhouse on a UK tour in 2015.

'wonderfully atmospheric' Whatsonstage.com

'an enchanting fairy story brought splashing into present-day, superbly woven around a highly descriptive text' The Public Reviews


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780015798
Publisher: Hern, Nick Books
Publication date: 04/09/2014
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 64
File size: 668 KB
Age Range: 12 Years

About the Author

Polly Teale is Joint Artistic Director of Shared Experience. Her productions for the company include Mermaid, Speechless (co-writer/director; Fringe First Award), The Glass Menagerie, Mine (writer/director), Ten Tiny Toes, Kindertransport, Jane Eyre (director/adapter, touring and West End), Brontë, After Mrs Rochester (writer/director, touring and West End; Evening Standard Award for Best Director, Time Out Award for Best West End Production), Madame Bovary, The Clearing, A Doll’s House, The House of Bernarda Alba, Desire Under the Elms; and as co-director with Nancy Meckler: War and Peace (co-production with the National Theatre) and Mill on the Floss. Further writing credits include Afters (BBC Screen Two) and Fallen (Traverse, Edinburgh/ Drill Hall).

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