The Climate Siren: Hanna Cormick's The Mermaid. Issue 3 (September 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Stevens, Lara; Varney, Denise
• Is Part Of: TDR. Volume 66:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 107
• Page End: 118
• Publication Date: 2022-09
• Subjects: Theater -- Periodicals; Theater -- Political aspects -- Periodicals; Theater and society -- Periodicals; Experimental theater -- Periodicals; Théâtre -- Périodiques; Experimental theater; Theater; Theater and society; Theater -- Political aspects; Aspect politique; Aspect social; Société; Théâtre (Spectacle); Théâtre expérimental; Periodicals; 792.05
• DOI: 10.1017/S1054204322000338
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1365-7518

Abstract

Abstract : An accomplished dancer, acrobat, and physical theatre performer, Hanna Cormick became ill in 2014 with a trifecta of rare genetic conditions that make her severely allergic to pollutants in the air — smoke, detergents, and food particles — and her bones and internal organs prone to dislocation. In January 2020, during Australia's summer of unprecedented bushfires, Cormick staged The Mermaid, risking her life to make a performance about the climate emergency and how we are all vulnerable bodies at risk in a changing environment.