Salt

Check out the review at Stage Left.

"a sweet and savoury play in five helpings"

WORLD PREMIERE

When ESL teacher Meg and her glamorous seventy-year-old mother find themselves sharing a kitchen again, it's a case of too many cooks.

Who will rule the recipe book? Who will wield the kitchen knife? Who will command the cooktop?

This is a poetic and delicate tribute to the ties that bind; a delicious partaking of the perils and pleasures of the table. Award-winning playwright Peta Murray gets to the heart of the matter in five courses cooked live on stage.

Starring Julia Blake as Laurel, the worst cook in the world - and Victoria Eagger as her daughter, gourmande Meg, Salt is a sensual and aromatic mix of spiced words, time and simmering emotions. Kitchen lore and kitchen wars are amongst the many ingredients of this exquisite exploration of a mother-daughter relationship.

One of Australia's most successful playwrights, Peta Murray's credits include the internationally acclaimed Wallflowering, two AWGIE nominations for This Dying Business and The Diver, as well as three AWGIE awards for Spitting Chips, The Keys to the Animal Room and her adaptation of Tim Winton's book, Blueback.

Â…one of the rarest combinations of humour and insight, pathos and infinite charm.' Time Off

Â…astonishing insight into human natureÂ…magically ironic, poignant and ultimately upliftingÂ…' Rave

"Cyanide in the kitchen? Look no further than the seeds of the apple...In the average domestic kitchen deadly poisons abound."

Monday and Tuesday evenings: 6.30pm
Wednesday to Saturday evenings: 8.00pm
Thursday matinees: 1.00pm
Saturday matinees: first Saturday: 2.00pm
subsequent Saturdays: 4.00pm