The wonderful tale by Andersen has always provoked the directorial, pictorial and dramaturgical fantasy of many artists, probably for the richness of semi-metaphors which fill the text. Never have myth and tale come together so viscerally as in the case of La Sirenetta, to create almost a third genre, suspended between the strength of the particular archetype of myth and the unlimited, dreamlike fantasy of tales.
This revisiting tells the story of an adolescent who, as a gesture of love, gives up their very essence (their tail) in a desperate attempt to be accepted, in a desperate attempt to be loved.  The famous tale by Andersen is thus re-read as a metaphor for sexual identity.
“We began with letters written by adolescents who decided to kill themselves because they didn’t feel accepted for their sexuality”, write the authors. Adolescents who had renounced their own voices for who knows how long. “La Sirenetta” provokes a reflection on love, the most difficult kind, that for ourselves and the body we live in.
“There is a moment in which all of us are equal and undefined, without distinction of sex and gender. This is where everything begins. In this moment I state my boundaries. Head, arms and tail.”
The Eco di fondo company was founded in Milan in 2009 by Giacomo Ferraù and Giulia Viana, graduate actors from the Accademia dei Filodrammatici of Milan in 2007. It has for some time been committed to a research project aimed at re-reading the most famous myths and tales as metaphors for topical themes.