The Language of Mermaids
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Department of Theater

The Language of Mermaids

February 26 - March 06, 2027

What we bury always returns.

Michael Alvarez, Director

On a deserted beach, seven lives collide in the uneasy calm before a tsunami. As desire, memory and buried truths rise to the surface, the boundaries between human and animal, land and sea, oppressor and oppressed begin to dissolve.

Darkly comic, visceral and politically charged, The Language of Mermaids is a fable about bodies caught between worlds, and what happens when everything we have tried to bury, both collectively and individually, comes rushing back.

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