Adapted from and further inspired by the short story Mermaid in the Jar by Sheila Heti, this triptych of short chamber operas (Mermaid in the Jar, Prairie Dogs, and Fine and Dandy) takes place entirely within an eleven-year-old girl’s bedroom as she overhears her parents’ volatile conversations. Over the course of a few days, a mermaid she recei...
Content warning: mentions of death, murder of a child
Teenagers Léa and Ivy explore a struggling travelling carnival while waiting to meet up with Léa's overworked mother Manon. In the run-down haunted house the girls stumble upon the ghost of Marcel, a young boy who met a violent end in the basement of his school. Marcel asks to the girls to...