Created the 1rst of March 2009
at Théâtre Jean Vilar of Bourgoin Jallieu (France)

It’s perhaps the best-known of Andersen’s stories. It may also be the least-known as it has so often been adapted to a point where it bears no more than a distant resemblance to the original. Marie Potonet has chosen to go back to the source: the story that she’ll tell us will be the one that Andersen wrote, an immersion into the Scandinavian poet’s highly personal world in which the most dazzling fantasy is mixed with a diffuse melancholy, the wondrous competes with the ironic and intelligence with dreams. The story of the Little Mermaid as written by Andersen isn’t a love story (the prince never falls in love), it’s the story of a dream and is much stronger than a love story. The CDNA and the CCNG have joined forces to perform the dream in the theatre.

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