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A LITTLE SALTY

by Alex Vishegorodskiy


April 1, 2025





Artist Statement:
I don’t really know where I was going with this play, but the idea of two peasant salt miners arguing about their station in life just sort of occurred to me, and I decided to start writing it. It ended up becoming a very ...

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