Salthe

Salthe is a story about a crown princess who performs scenes from her past on a stage between life and death. Directed by an enigmatic jester, Salthe relives her life to discover why she died and find a way back to the world of the living.

The stage between life and death

Salthe’s journey is marked by blood, despair, regret and madness. With no audience to cheer her on, she struggles through scenes of scorn and mockery as the jester guides her performance. Her story turns a human life into a comedy.

The characters

• Salthe: The finest actress in Mersin’s national theatre troupe, she is clever and capable, and has balanced her stage work with her royal duties. On Kloun’s phantasmagoric stage, she relives her time as Mersin’s crown princess while searching for the reason for her death.
• Marie: Salthe’s kind-hearted childhood friend is a nun who lives in a church outside town and cares for children who have lost their parents. The orphanage is short of money, but Marie remains cheerful as she makes ends meet. She is determined once she has made up her mind, and Salthe has been helping her find adoptive parents for the orphans.
• Kloun: An enigmatic jester who offers Salthe the chance to return to life from the liminal stage. He claims to be her friend but never drops his theatrical facade.