Last updated: Friday, April 21, 2006
AL PACINO TALKS ABOUT SALOME
A dramatic production based on the biblical tale of lust and revenge, Oscar Wilde’s SALOME draws the audience into a decadent world of passion and betrayal.
SALOME follows the legend of King Herod and his unbridled desire for Salome, the young daughter of his wife, Herodias. Salome, indifferent to Herod’s advances, longs for the love of the imprisoned John the Baptist. When he rejects her, she uses her powers of seduction and manipulation – and the Dance of the Seven Veils – to seek her revenge.
This production of SALOME was developed at the Actor’s Studio (Estelle Parsons, Artistic Director) and was presented at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn (November 2002), at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie, NY (February 2003), and on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (April, 2003). Ben Brantley, in the The New York Times, said SALOME is “Smashing. Inspired and sexy as all get-out.”
An Irish-born English poet, novelist and playwright, Oscar Wilde was considered an eccentric, as he was leader of the aesthetic movement that advocated “art for art’s sake” and was once imprisoned for two years with hard labor for homosexual practices. SALOME (1893) written in French, was refused a license in London but, 13 years later, was adapted by Richard Strauss into a successful opera. Translated by Lord Alfred Douglas, it later appeared in England.
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