'Salt, Root and Roe'  The Donmar Warehouse's season at the
shoebox-sized Trafalgar Studios aims to shine a light on the
talents of its resident assistant directors.  The Donmar
Warehouse’s season at the shoebox-sized Trafalgar Studios aims
to shine a light on the talents of its resident assistant
directors. It gets off to an impressive start with Hamish
Pirie’s tactful, gentle production of “Salt, Root and Roe,” a
drama about a pair of septuagenarian Welsh twins, one of whom
has Alzheimer’s. Tim Price’s second play draws us into the
eerily beautiful North Pembrokeshire coast, and while it
traffics heavily in symbols and maritime metaphors, and leaves a
few too many plot points dangling, it has a winning tenderness.
Identical twin sisters Iona (Anna Calder-Marshall) and Anest
(Anna Carteret) live together in a farmhouse by the sea. Their
father used to joke that he was a merman, and the script is
punctuated with interludes of underwater fantasy. When we first
glimpse the old ladies, they are playing a game wi