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Forget the Little Mermaid you thought you knew. Meow Meow's subversive cabaret is a fairytale gone rogue. The legendary post-post-modern diva takes up residence in International Festival HQ for a festival-long run. Joined by The Siren Effect Orchestra and a posse of DIY princes, she gives Hans Christian Andersen's story of self-sacrifice, seduction and salvation a raucous contemporary make-over. Meow Meow's Little Mermaid is a wild and hilarious riot, colliding Andersen's dark aquatic fantasy with her own mis-adventures in love, blending sparkling frivolity with fierce intelligence - and a blowtorch wit. Casting salty sea shanties overboard, she conjures instead a glittering world of original songs and compositions by siren collaborators Amanda Palmer, Kate Miller-Heidke, Megan Washington and more. There's passion and poignancy as the mermaid longs to gain a human body, a human soul, the love of a prince... a happy ending.