Salt for the Lighthouse
An old keeper runs out of salt in the one week the sea forgets to be salty. A comedy of storms.
The keeper has kept the light for forty years and his porridge for longer, and his porridge needs salt. The shop is across the water. The sea, this week, is fresh as a puddle and in a sulk.
So he rows out with a lantern and an empty tin to ask the sea what the matter is, while a crane minds the lamp, badly, and every ship for miles steers by a bird.
The only play in our repertory with a working lighthouse: its beam is a slot cut in a card that we turn by hand, twelve times a minute.
From the screen
Scenes from the play
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On the towpath
Where to see it
| Date | Place | Where we tie up | Play | Lamps lit | Reserve |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 17 Oct | Bradford-on-Avon | The Wharf | Salt for the Lighthouse | 18:15 | Reserve |
| Sat 24 Oct | Devizes | Foot of Caen Hill locks | Salt for the Lighthouse | 18:00 | Reserve |
| Sat 21 Nov | Aldermaston | Aldermaston Wharf | Salt for the Lighthouse | 16:30 | Reserve |