SALT
From: Wednesday, 3rd February 2010
To: Saturday, 20 February 2010
Our Review: 
Search for tickets
Use the link below to search for SALT tickets on your desired date.
We're sorry, it seems that we do not currently sell tickets for this show. Please go directly to the box office.
| Tweet |
|
Synopsis
Set over the course of five dinner parties in a plush London basement kitchen, Fiona Peek’s debut play explores four thirty-something’s recipe for life, love, friendship and disaster. Amy and Simon have the children and money that life has so far denied Nick and Rachel, so when a simple act of charity enables their friends to hold onto their dreams, it’s not long before food, fertility and finances reach boiling point and brings everything bubbling to the surface.
Our Review:
5 February 2010
It’s not often you get the chance to see a world premiere and Salt by Fiona Peek at the Royal Exchange Studio theatre is a very special one.
For it is one of four entries in the Bruntwood Playwriting competition which beat 1,000 other would-be winners to come joint first. Peek’s play about two couples who regularly dine together in a plush London basement kitchen, is so well regarded that it has been given a run of over two weeks.
Amy and Simon (Beth Cordingley and Simon Chadwick) have the children and cash that Nick and Rachel (Kevin Harvey and Esther Hall) long for but as we follow their interactions during five dinner parties, emotions come to the surface and their friendship is strained by a supposed act of kindness.
Cordingley and Chadwick portray well two thirty-somethings who have achieved everything they want in life. Their satisfaction chaffs like salt on Harvey and Hall's portrayal of a ...
Creative
Fiona Peek (Author)
Royal Exchange Theatre (Producer)
Jo Combes (Director)
Ben Stones (Design)
Richard Owen (Lighting)
Gerry Marsden (Sound)
Information
|
