What’s on Tuesday: Salt Mountain at Project Arts Centre

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Salt Mountain

Project Arts Centre. Previews Aug 24-25 Opens Aug 26-29 8pm projectartscentre.ie

Stories of violence, upheaval and dispossession do not spare the young: they affect every generation. Writing a new play for National Youth Theatre, Carmel Winters involves a story of war and migration when people are driven from their homeland and cluster together to survive. There are many such grim histories, but the premise invokes the current global crisis of refugees, dispossession and migration.

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Directed by Jo Mangan, and involving action sequences and song, it is not just a story of hardship from without, but what happens within a tribe: does it band together or fly aggressively apart?