FirstAct: Watch MD Pallavi's Salt, a play about ramifications of poverty in a pandemic
In MD Pallavi's 'Salt', a woman and her daughters walk the hard line between hunger and dignity.
Poster of MD Pallavi's FirstAct presentation Salt. Poster design by MD Pallavi
Editor's note: With FirstAct, Firstpost is collaborating with theatre and improv artists from all over India, who'll perform short pieces or readings over a Zoom video-conference call.
After FirstAct's debut show with Improv Comedy Bangalore, followed by Drama Queen's For Tomorrow, Theatre Jil Jil Ramamani's Haiku in a Bun, OGLAM's Abey Yaar!, and Chanakya Vyas' Leftovers we are all set to present our next — Salt.
***
During the lockdown, there was a huge food crisis in various parts of the country, and that continues even today due to lack of employment.
Hunger is as much an epidemic as the virus is a pandemic.
Salt is about a family of three women, a mother and two daughters who tell each other stories and fake the food on their plate, in order to walk the hard line between hunger and dignity.
Also read on Firstpost — FirstAct: In 'Salt', a woman and her daughters walk the hard line between hunger and dignity
— All Rights Reserved
also read
Joe Biden signs law declassifying US intel on COVID-19 origin
Biden said that in 2021, after taking office, he had 'directed the Intelligence Community to use every tool at its disposal to investigate'
Finding COVID-19's origins is a moral imperative, says WHO's Tedros
A US agency was reported by the Wall Street Journal to have assessed the pandemic had likely been caused by an unintended Chinese laboratory leak, raising pressure on the WHO to come up with answers. Beijing denies the assessment
Shadow Warrior | Conspiracy theories, lab leak redux, and manufacturing consent
Given that some 5-10 million people died due to the Wuhan virus (depending on whom you ask) it is not unreasonable to dub this a crime against humanity, and to demand that the perpetrators be tried in a court of law