LITTLE MERCY
Think you know a difficult child? Wait until you meet Little Mercy.
This audacious eight-year-old operates at the dark centre of a creepy comedy of the same name. Into the seemingly normal lives of couple Roger and Virginia Summers enters a tiny lover of lollipops and ice-cream, who turns out to not be quite as sweet as she appears.
Ash Flanders, co-creator and one half of Victorian theatre duo Sisters Grimm, says the piece provides a new take on the legendary film genre of the ‘evil child.’
“You know those villains that people tend to cheer for because they’re both adorable and terrifying? It deals with that and appeals to the savage child in all of us that never wanted to be civilised!”
From its humble beginnings in a Melbourne car park almost three years ago to the stage of the Sydney Theatre Company, Flanders and his directing partner-in-crime Declan Greene feel the production will give audience members, “a good shock to the system.”
“The main goal is to keep them laughing, we’re not here to educate. We are the theatre of bad medicine, literally just sugar.”
Mar 7-24, Wharf 2, Sydney Theatre Company, Hickson Rd, Walsh Bay, from $25, 9250 1777, sydneytheatre.com.au
BY CHELSEA DEELEY
