Salomé

A dark Biblical tale of hubris, lust, and self-destruction, written in the inimitable voice of Oscar Wilde. The beautiful Salomé is King Herod’s stepdaughter, who helps her mother Herodias exact a gruesome revenge on the prophet John the Baptist. Wilde originally wrote this powerful one-act tragedy in French, and the play was so controversial that no theatre in England would produce it for nearly four decades.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:

James Marsters as Iokanaan

Kate Steele as Salomé

John Vickery as Herrod

Rosalind Ayres as Herodias

Matthew Wolf as A Cappadocian/Page of Herodias/Various

André Sogliuzzo as The Young Syrian/Tigellinus/Various

Original music by Djivan Gasparyan and Lian Ensemble.

Includes a live post-performance discussion with director Michael Hackett and Wilde scholar David Rodes.

Directed by Michael Hackett. Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in January of 2014.