The Little Mermaid

A small scale ballet

The youngest son in a mobility aid-using family runs away from his Mandurah home, looking for the love he deserves on land in the western suburbs’ beautiful Prince.

Reimagined as a modern ballet about local lives, The Little Mermaid reckons with the power and fragility of love and growth on the margins.

Made with care by a disabled-led team of underrepresented theatre, dance and music collaborators, this ballet bravely defies tradition — merging classical, contemporary and everyday choreography with social realism through Patrick Gunasekera’s compellingly human score.

Performed to expressive new music by local composer-improvisers Tiffany Ha and Ben Buchanan, this coming-of-age shimmers with adolescence’s brilliant and bitter triumphs of surviving amidst invisibility.

👋 Every Saturday matinee will be followed by a post-show Q&A with the creative team from 3:15pm.

💻 Pay-what-you can online streaming tickets can be bought here.

Additional show information

📜 Click here to read this show’s Synopsis.
ℹ️ Click here to read this show’s Show Program.

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This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Thank you to the many kind donations to our independent fundraiser, which have supported the access costs of this project.

• Choreographer / Producer / Scenographer

  Patrick Gunasekera (he/him)

• Intimacy Director

  Rhiannon Bryan (they/them)

• Production Manager

  Emmett Aster (he/him)

• Stage Manager

  Anna Quercia-Thomas (she/they)

• Composer / Pianist

  Tiffany Ha (she/her)

• Composer / Cellist

  Ben Buchanan (he/him)

• Sound Designer

  Rebecca Riggs-Bennett (she/they)

• Lighting Designer

  Jasmine Lifford (she/her and they/them)

• Set & Props Consultant

  Charlotte Meagher (she/her)

• Blind Cultural Consultant

  Grace King (she/her)

• Performer – “The Little Mermaid”

  Patrick Gunasekera (he/him)

• Performer – “The Middle Mermaid”

  Ez O’Keefe (they/them)

• Performer – “The Sea Queen”

  Rayna Lamb (she/her)

• Performer – “The Prince”

  Octavia Hall (she/her)

• Performer – “The Theologian”

  Alison Evans (she/her)

• Performer – “The Captain”

  Bella Scullard (they/them)

• Assistant Producer

  Rachel Hull (they/them)

• Design Associate

  Ken Meyer (he/him)

• Audience Peer Support Worker

  Rachel Hull (they/them)
  Adele Aria (they/them)
  Anania Tagaro (she/her)
  Ari Rahim (it/its & they/them)

• Online Film Videographer

  Logan Ringshaw (he/him)

• Dramaturg

  Ari Rahim (it/its & they/them)