Silver Darlings

directed by Jessica Dromgoole, a HighTide, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Arts commission.

Radio 4’s Pick of the Week

Starring Anastasia Hille, Joel MacCormack, Cassie Layton and Simon Ludders 

When Rita finds a fish-girl with a long, green and scaly tail in her bath, she immediately knows who’s to blame. Since her sister got ill, their dad’s been taking his old fishing boat out and trawling the North sea  looking for a church bell off the coast of Dunwich. He never meant to catch a mermaid but now he has, and he wants to sell her. As the fish-girl struggles to survive on land, Rita’s sister begins to improve. Is the mermaid a beast or a thing of wonder? Rita can’t decide.

A mystical play set by Sizewell’s Nuclear Power Plant about pulling up a mermaid from the North Sea.