Tag: mermaid

We are stardust

WHAT WOULD YOU do if you discovered that the childhood you had thought was yours, wasn’t? In other words, if you were indeed the magical being every little child who is invested in fantasy from a very young age, yearns to be. In episode 19 of Martyn le […]

Hit the road, jock!

UP UNTIL NOW, we’ve had inklings of the great powers of ‘our’ mermaid Salacia (Elzahn Dorfling) , in Martyn le Roux’s serialised podcast, Die Soutwaterheks, but nothing beyond what could easily be seen to amount to party tricks and complex mystical theories, really. In episode 18, you get […]

Clothes shopping for a 300-year-old

YOU KNOW SOMETHING enormous has happened when your body kicks in, and when after experiencing this thing, you wake up lying on the floor with someone giving you sips of sugar water. This is where we find Belinda (Annette Havenga) in the opening sequences of episode nine of […]

SOS: Bath creature in distress

WHEN YOU HAVE a mythical creature lying naked in your bath, how do you convince a colleague who has roughly the same proportions, to bring her smalls over to your apartment, without seeming inappropriate, or completely nuts? This is the conundrum that our hero, Frans (Francois Coertze) finds […]