Many dramatists have taken their turn putting faces to Thoreau's lives of "quiet desperation". But the challenge in what Thoreau goes on to conclude " that it is therefore a mark of wisdom and the wise to avoid acts of desperation " has been taken up by far fewer. Salt, Root and Roe sees Tim Price transform an act of violence from one of apparently senseless desperation, to one of humane intelligence and generosity.r…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:01PM on November 14, 2011