"The Little Mermaid", along with many other classic tales, suffers from having been Disneyfied: Hollywood made sure that the shadows darkening Hans Christian Andersen's original were softened for family viewing and his ambiguous end replaced by American-style positive closure firmly set in the mainstream comfort zone. Simon Godwin's production pays homage to panto without being tied to the clichés and steers a sensi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:15AM on December 28, 2013