SALOME is recommended for mature audiences (violence and brief nudity)

Our student theater is always doing something bold and surprising, and here comes the play celebrated as the quintessence of “decadence.” 

Salome was controversial from the beginning-- when word of its lurid quality got around London, rehearsals were halted in 1892 on the grounds it was illegal to depict biblical characters on the stage.  Its first production was in France (wouldn’t you know it) four years later, by which time Wilde was already in prison. 

Audiences a century later might be slightly less shocked, but the story of the girl who asks her step dad for a saint’s head on a platter as a reward for her lap dance still seems very--well--modern. Oscar Wilde’s version is an elegant invitation to spectacle and we are confident our young and gifted students will deliver every shimmer of every tantalizing veil.

-Murray Ross