NB. Tickets go on sale for this event on 11 September and will be sold through the David Lean website.
Selina Thompson / salt : dispersed (FILM)
“… Where our real home might be is tricky to say. In a way that is the point. Some people say that is the body, but I think the body is more a channel that leads us home. Ultimate reality is our home. It is here and now, and it is not a special piece of what is happening. We imagine that we are on a journey, that life is a journey, but we are home from the beginning. This is not an easy thing to accept. “
In February 2016, two artists got on a cargo ship, and retraced one of the routes of the Transatlantic Slave Triangle – from the UK to Ghana to Jamaica, and back. Their memories, their questions and their grief took them along the bottom of the Atlantic and through the figurative realm of an imaginary past.
It was a long journey backwards, in order to go forwards.
This show is what they brought back.
Salt toured from 2016 until 2020 and travelled to Brazil, Australia, Canada, USA and across the UK. This is a film of the live experience.
Film followed by a Q&A with STL Associate Director Toni-Dee Paul and Carolyn Forsyth, CEO of Talawa Theatre Company.
Winner of:
The Stage Edinburgh Award
The Total Theatre Award for Experimentation, Innovation and Playing with Form
The Filipa Brangaca Award for Best Female Solo Performance
"Plain-talking and very funny, then poetic and spiritual. Salt is a rare thing, a show with conceptual heft and a big heart." Financial Times
Photo: The Other Richard