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Salt, Root and Roe: Modern Plays

Autor Tim Price
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 noi 2011
Tim Price's Salt, Root and Roe is a heartbreaking, humorous tale of love and family set against a mythical backdrop.

Set on the Pembrokeshire coast in West Wales, identical twins Iola and Anest remain devoted to each other. Ageing fast, and with the time they have together more fragile by the day, they arrive at a desperate decision. Word of this reaches Anest's daughter Menna, who rushes to her long abandoned childhood home where her own ideas of love and compromise are tested to the limit.

In spite of the sombre themes of death and bereavement, the writing is light, textured and at times very funny: picking out moments of joy and sadness with seemingly effortless grace.

Touching relationships and believable characterisation provide a poignant backdrop to Salt, Root and Roe, where pragmatism, exhausted lives and childrens' fairytales collide in this exploration of grief, loss and acceptance.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408172032
ISBN-10: 1408172038
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Modern Plays

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Twelve hours after leaving the theatre, I can't get the piece out of my head. Its mixture of the whimsical and the shocking, windy Welsh garrulousness and sudden moments of intense feeling, is undoubtedly distinctive. There may be more than a touch of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood in the play's more poetic passages, with stories of mermen and villages under the sea, but it is also a piercing account of sisterly love and the agonies of Alzheimer's . . . It captures both the horrors of old age and the ties of family love with unmistakable compassion.
Price's writing is amusingly alert to the absurdities that surround this heartbreaking situation... Just as Price's script seamlessly combines the dotty and the distressing, so it is able at once to invoke poetic marine myths and hilariously debunk them.
Tim Price is a young Welsh writer who got glowing reviews for his first play, For Once. This new piece...is a quietly impressive follow-up that confirms Price's promise...Price is a talent to watch.