Celeste, a young mermaid, burns with an impossible flame for a prince she saved from a shipwreck. Consumed by the obsession of her face, she decides to leave her family and sacrifice her voice to a witch to have wife’s legs and a chance to be loved on the surface. Propelled into a world she does not know, uprooted, unable to communicate and reveal to the one she loves her story and her identity, the girl must find the way to the heart of the young man under pain of being changed into foam.
Can we sacrifice everything for love? Can we forgive those who leave us?
Freely adapted from The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen
Writing and staging Lisa Guez
With Marie-Claire Alpérine, Dolorès Dallaire, Chantal Foulon, Frédéric Foulon, Kévin Lefebvre
Artistic collaborator Alexandre Tran
Assistant director Dounia Brousse
Light, costumes and scenography Sarah Doukhan
Sound Designer Thomas Tran
Choreographic look Cyril Viallon
Laurene Damperon, Romain Ghesquiere, Jade Pouchoulou
Technical Director Greg Leteneur
Directors Baptiste Crétel, Julien Hoffmann and Grégoire Plancher (alternating)
Thanks Jérémy Dubois-Malkhior, Léonor Baudouin and the entire Oiseau-Mouche team
Production Compagnie de l'Oiseau-Mouche
Coproduction Compagnie 13/31, La Comédie de Béthune Centre Dramatique National, Théâtre de la Ville – Paris
With the support of Maison Folie - Wazemmes/ Ville de Lille and the European Metropolis of Lille as part of the Les Belles Sorties 2023 scheme
Project labeled Paris 2024/ Cultural Olympiad
Project supported by ONDA, National Office of Artistic Diffusion, as part of the Cultural Olympiad
Duration: 1h10
From 11 years old
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