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9 Aug 2001 – 15 Sept 2001August 2001
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Details
- Playwright
- Peta Murray
- Director
- Jennifer Hagan
AddressWharf 1, Pier 4 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, Sydney
"Cyanide in the kitchen? Look no further than the seeds of the apple... In the average domestic kitchen deadly poisons abound."
Take one glamorous seventy year old mother who's just burnt down her kitchen. Shake her into her daughter's house. Add a mysterious man who appears from time to time with just the right ingredients to cook a meal, to draw out bitter secrets. To heal.
As daughter Meg chops and blends her way through five different dishes, this very competitive mother-daughter relationship starts to reveal hints of its background threads. The mystery of their lives sits somewhere in the sacred family cookbook but will the right page ever be found?
Peta Murray (Wallflowering) has written a delicious drama where kitchen fascist Meg and mother Laurel (Ruth Cracknell), the worst cook in the world, find themselves living together again. It's here in the daughter's precious kitchen that the two will carve their way to something new, but not until Laurel walks the hot coals of her past.
Salt is a brilliantly layered terrine of story-telling. Sensual and surprising, intriguing and sinister.
"I love this play.... its elusive quality, its subtlety, its challenge." Ruth Cracknell, actor
With Ruth Cracknell and Pamela Rabe
Further info
Take one glamorous seventy year old mother who's just burnt down her kitchen. Shake her into her daughter's house. Add a mysterious man who appears from time to time with just the right ingredients to cook a meal, to draw out bitter secrets. To heal.
As daughter Meg chops and blends her way through five different dishes, this very competitive mother-daughter relationship starts to reveal hints of its background threads. The mystery of their lives sits somewhere in the sacred family cookbook but will the right page ever be found?
Peta Murray (Wallflowering) has written a delicious drama where kitchen fascist Meg and mother Laurel (Ruth Cracknell), the worst cook in the world, find themselves living together again. It's here in the daughter's precious kitchen that the two will carve their way to something new, but not until Laurel walks the hot coals of her past.
Salt is a brilliantly layered terrine of story-telling. Sensual and surprising, intriguing and sinister.
"I love this play.... its elusive quality, its subtlety, its challenge." Ruth Cracknell, actor
With Ruth Cracknell and Pamela Rabe
Further info
Bookings
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