Mermaids, Caribbean tales and copyright
Ola Ince is staging a version of Rosa Guy's novel My Love, My Love, which draws on the Hans Andersen story but sets it in Haiti, and the Disney live action film opens this week.
Disney's The Little Mermaid and a musical adaptation of a Caribbean version of the story kick off our conversation as Shahidha Bari is joined by director Ola Ince, historian and Sarah Peverley, who is writing a cultural history of mermaids. "Mermaid hunter" Sacha Coward considers mermaids as queer icons, and Claudy Op den Kamp talks us through Disney copyright history.
Producer: Sofie Vilcins
Once On This Island directed by Ola Ince runs at the Regent's Park Theatre until June 10th. It's the story of peasant girl Ti Moune and a boy called Daniel, and it's based upon a novel by Rosa Guy called My Love, My Love or The Peasant Girl, which takes its inspiration from the Hans Christian Andersen story The Little Mermaid.
Disney's The Little Mermaid starring Halle Bailey and directed by Rob Marshall is in cinemas from May 26th.
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