Overwritten, overripe 'Salome' in Sherman

In Noel Coward's "Private Lives," one of the characters observes: "How potent cheap music is." Nearly 50 years earlier, Oscar Wilde discovered the same effect could be achieved with sensationalism when he wrote his short play "Salome," based on an incident described in the Bible.

[Hugh Manatee]

Interesting take - I haven't seen this production yet, but when I saw the Broadway production that was presented as a reading (Al Pacino, Diane Weiss and Marisa Tomei), I thought the aspect of minimalism gave the floral quality of Wilde's script enough atmosphere to permeate the audience without suffocating it.
I have heard that Pacino assigns characteristics of animals to his roles - if this is true, then I would surmise that his Herod was an orangutan - and he, too was very "big", even in the guise of a reading.

[Anton Lavey]

Aubrey Beardsley would NOT be proud