SISTERS GRIMM
LITTLE MERCY
Roger and Virginia Summers seem to have it all. He's a successful theatre director, she's a successful drunken housewife. But their perfect lives are missing a key ingredient: a child. One stormy night, little Mercy arrives on their doorstep, and their prayers are answered.
A plucky 8-year-old with a taste for ice-cream and lollipops, it soon appears their new daughter also has a hobby of an unfortunate - and altogether darker - nature. Cafeful what you wish for....
A gory and dragged-out dissection of the 'evil child' movie genre, Little Mercy takes Hollywood's Golden Age to a melodramatic extreme.
THE SISTERHOOD:
Performed by ASH FLANDERS, LUKE MULLINS, and JILL MCKAY as 'Mercy'
Created by ASH FLANDERS & DECLAN GREENE
Directed by DECLAN GREENE
Design by DAVID FLEISCHER
Lighting by VERITY HAMPSON
Sound by STEVE TOULMIN
Stage Manager: SARAH SMITH
Assistant Stage Manager: ROXZAN BOWES
A Sydney Theatre Company production.
REVIEWS:
★★★★ 'Declan Greene and Ash Flanders pile on the absurd horrors in the second half of the play until you think you can't stand any more. Then the vomiting starts... I haven't been so surprised or laughed so hard in a theatre in ages.' The Sun-Herald
★★★★½ 'As a 20-something, it’s not often you see a show on the main stages where you think “this was made for me.” Sisters Grimm’s old-Hollywood mash-up is one such show. See it.' The Brag
★★★★ 'To say that Little Mercy is a high-camp delight is to massively understate the case... Scrabble for the few remaining tickets.' Time Out
SEASON
7 - 24 MARCH, 2013
WHARF 2
Sydney Theatre Company
LITTLE MERCY Photography by Brett Boardman
LITTLE MERCY Photography by Brett Boardman
LITTLE MERCY Photography by Brett Boardman
LITTLE MERCY Photography by Brett Boardman
LITTLE MERCY Photography by Brett Boardman
LITTLE MERCY Photography by Brett Boardman
LITTLE MERCY Photography by Brett Boardman
LITTLE MERCY Photography by Brett Boardman
LITTLE MERCY Photography by Brett Boardman