Event

The Department of Creative & Festival Arts (DCFA) presents the premiere of Earl Lovelace's award winning novel "Salt". Scripted for the first time for theatre and directed by Louis Mc Williams, this piece will be performed by students in the BA in Theatre Arts programme.

Together, they tell one tale of a people's journey toward personal and social wholeness. Their travails along the way, sacrifices, break-ups and binding together become the text of this story, its territory.

Show times are 8pm daily, and 6pm on Sundays. General admission tickets are currently available for $100. Tertiary students with student ID pay $75, and secondary students pay $50.  

Tickets may be purchased at the DCFA, Agostini Street, St. Augustine. 

Every year at Independence, Uncle Bango assembles children from the tiny village of Cunaripo, outfits them and undertakes a march representative of an imagined nationhood. At the end of the novel 'Salt', a number of non-fictional characters join Bango's march in the hope of a new society based on amending historical injustice.

This inclusion of multiple, individual stories into Bango's march provides precedence for the form of our production: an interweaving of Lovelace's multiple narratives that fall in step, in our view, with the message and rhythm of the march.These we draw from 'The Dragon Can't Dance' (1979) and 'The Wine of Astonishment' (1982). Together, they tell one tale of a people's journey toward personal and social wholeness. Their travails along the way, sacrifices, break-ups and binding together become the text of this story, its territory.