Today's paper this evening - Theatre Review SALT
Selina Thompson is worth her Salt on stage By Stephen Weir I have a fist-sized lump of salt on my desk. Unlike actress Selina Thompson, I don’t know what I am supposed to do with it. “Just, mind you, don’t put this in your mouth,” she warned me when she handed over the rough pink triangle of rock salt. “This is for thinking on, not eating.” “ It was a piece of salt that convinced me I should continue living,” the young British actress told an almost full North Toronto theatre on Thursday night. As she has done at performances around the world, Thompson ended her one-woman play, SALT, by racing out to the front of the house in time to give each and every one of her departing members of the audience chunks of salt so we could ponder life too. After watching her on stage pulverizing a block of salt while she was riffing on slavery, European racism and the utter freedom of walking the streets of Jamaica while Black, Thompson left us wit...