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The Little Mermaid
Bristol Old Vic
BRISTOL have come up trumps with this year’s festive offering, a simplified but gloriously colourful and dynamic ecological version of Hans Christian Andersen’s much loved fairy tale.
The titular character, the only remaining mermaid in an ocean devasted by oil production, sacrifices her subaquatic existence in a desperate attempt to pursue the human who promises some hope for restoring the coral and revitalising sea life.
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