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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Tim Price Klappentext 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.A heart-wrenching tale of the bond between two elderly twins, this ethereally beautiful play is elegiac, graceful and deeply moving. Zusammenfassung Ethereally beautiful, Salt Root and Roe is a heartbreaking, humorous tale of love, age and family against a mythical backdrop. Set on the Pembrokeshire coast in West Wales, exhausted lives and childrens' fairytales collide in this exploration of grief, loss and acceptance.
