La Petite Sirène
The Little Mermaid
after Hans Christian Andersen
Directed by Géraldine Martineau
Studio
Studio
La Petite Sirène
2018-11-15 18:30:00 2019-01-06 18:30:00
Géraldine Martineau adapts Andersen’s tale into blank verse set to the alexandrine meter, and imagines a musical forest of coral. She emphasises the poetic aspect of the story over the punitive moral of the tale.
“Tomorrow at last.” Full of curiosity and dreams, the Little Mermaid yearns for her fifteenth birthday. Like her sisters before her, in keeping with tradition, she will be allowed to leave her palace at the bottom of the sea and discover the beauties of the earthly world that she has been told so much about. That next day a storm takes place and she finds herself witnessing the drowning of a young man. She takes him back to shore and her song brings him back to life, prompting her to disappear immediately... So begin the adventures of the “little plankton” –as her grandmother nicknames her– who falls in love with a stranger and is daring enough to accept the pact offered to her by the sea witch: beautiful agile legs in exchange for her voice, but never to see her own kind again and, if the prince should marry another, she will turn into foam.
This is Géraldine Martineau’s first staging for a family audience. Also an actress, she already knows the Comédie-Française, where she has performed Kleist. Here she adapts Andersen’s tale into blank verse set to the alexandrine meter, and imagines a musical forest of coral. The journey of emancipation undertaken by the mermaid, whose dancing enchants humans and who is confronted with the stirrings of love, the fear of adults and the violence of the world, is an ode to difference. It asks us to think about what parts of ourselves we are capable of transforming to please others. Géraldine Martineau emphasises the poetic aspect of the story over the punitive moral of the tale. She tells us that by becoming the Daughter of the Air, the mermaid acquires “a nature full of natural goodness, perhaps closer to her own, and can thus continue her discovery of the world and the elements.”
NEW PRODUCTION
A co-production with Festival d’Automne in Paris
With the artistic participation of the Jeune Théâtre National
With the patronage of Haribo Ricqlès Zan
All audiences above 7 years old
1.10
Creative team
Adaptation, directed by: Géraldine Martineau
Scenography: Salma Bordes
Costumes: Laurianne Scimemi Del Francia
Lights: Laurence Magnée
Original music: Simon Dalmais
Sounds: François Vatin
Choregraphy: Sonia Duchesne
Artistic collaboration : Sylvain Dieuaide
Distribution
the company
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Jérôme
PoulyLe Père du Prince
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Danièle
LebrunLa Grand-Mère de la Petite Sirène, la Sorcière des mers et la Mère de la Princesse du palais voisin
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Voices of the Air Girls: Françoise Gillard, Anna Cervinka
Sung voice: Judith Chemla
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