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Highly imaginative play about the desire to let go

Source

Anna Carlier

Three wild salmon start out on the journey of their lives, crossing the sea to return to the river of their birth thousands of kilometres away. Their one final aim is to reproduce there. As the journey goes on, however, it becomes clear that they were not always salmon; they were once people. Jaded by the daily rat race, they suddenly changed into fish. As they swim, they enter into a humorous discussion about what it means to be a salmon and what it once meant to be human. Along the way they free a depressed farmed salmon from a net and take it in tow. As well as creating a new group dynamic, this adds an extra layer of humour.

In ‘Source’ the salmon reflect on their human and animal existence and discuss their desire for a different, simpler life. The play is about the desire to let go, about futile purposefulness and purposeful futility. ‘Source’ is a script full of imagination that makes both young and old stop and think about the point of existence.