Inspired by the research of Newcastle University's Professor Tanja Pless Mulloli. The play is set in a public meeting where the potential closure of local allotments polluted with lead, is being discussed. Passionate opinions are voiced on all sides of the discussion to try and get to the truth of the matter, but whose view and whose facts are the ones to be trusted?

Salt of the Earth offers new perspectives on the problems of information sharing on pollution and stimulates informative debate in an entertaining, humorous and creative forum. This play was performed at UKPHA 2007 and, as a result of interest in the production, to a public audience at Northern Stage Newcastle a week later.

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