Salt – Riverside Studios
A bitter song for a bloody story, Contemporary Ritual Theatre brings a strange and slippery offering to Riverside Studios, weaving dance, song, and dialogue in a summoning circle of rope and sweat that ensnares its audience and holds them in a merciless grip well beyond the threshold of pleasure.
The play’s brutal stranglehold on its audience is a testament to its enigmatic and often energetic performing corps comprised of veteran actor Emily Outred as the Widow Pruttock, Contemporary Ritual Theatre regular Mylo McDonald as her son Man Billy, and relative newcomer Bess Roche as Sheldis, the strangely seductive interloper in their squalid little life whose lascivious ways threaten to upend the little order they are able to impose in their chaotic sea ruled community. Composer and mus...
