WORK
MERMAIDS
A new musical in development
Do you hear the people sing? No? That’s because there’s only three of them and it’s windy.
Charisma is 17 and born to be a star. Her hopes for the future are brutally crushed when she is forced to leave her friends and packed off to live in the tiny fishing community of Porthmoroven. She has to battle suspicious locals, corrupt politicians and her own ideas of success to follow her dream in this uplifting comedy about a struggling drama group in a remote Cornish fishing village.
Mermaids has undergone two round of development supported by Arts Council England, Feast, National Theatre Studio Generate Programme, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Hall for Cornwall, AMATA (Falmouth University), North Wall Arts Centre and Taunton Brewhouse.
Full draft, recorded songs and other resources available on request: seawitchtheatre@gmail.com
Image: Steve Tanner
Image: Steve Tanner
Image: Steve Tanner
Image: John Freddy Jones
Image: Steve Tanner
Image: Steve Tanner
Image: Steve Tanner
Image: Steve Tanner
Photo by Josh Tomalin
Photo by Josh Tomalin
Image: John Freddy Jones
Image: Steve Tanner
Image: Steve Tanner
Image: John Freddy Jones
Image: Steve Tanner
Image: Steve Tanner
Image: Steve Tanner
Image: Steve Tanner
Image: Steve Tanner
Developed with the following creatives/performers
Chloe Endean, Aidan Nightingale, Coco Bates, Emma Robotham-Hunt, Jordan Scrase, Daniel Bouley, Roisin McCay-Hines, Gabrielle Brookes, Bec Applebee, Calvin Dean, Louis Amir-Hook, Verity Blyth, Tasah Fish, Sadie Jean-Shilrey, Josh Penrose, Katie Grenall, Rosie Stroud, Sam Weston, Dave Rice, Zack Okonkwo, The Arts Lab participants at North Wall Arts Centre and all the brilliant young people of the South West who came and took part in workshops.
Made possible by support from
Arts Council England, Theatre Royal Plymouth, National Theatre Studio (Generate programme), North Wall Arts Centre, Taunton Brewhouse, AMATA (Falmouth University), Falmouth International Arts Festival, Proteus, Peggy Ramsay Foundation and Feast.
