Tag: Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s Salome at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

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Salome is the story of a Judean king's unmarried stepdaughter agreeing to perform a taboo-breaking dance for her mother's husband in return of the head of a prophet who has not only defamed her family but further refused her approaches. It is a dance in return for a life, an arousing, risky danse macabre on which her … Continue reading Oscar Wilde’s Salome at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

It’s a challenger: Dorian – The Musical at the Southwark Playhouse

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My excitement to return to the very welcoming Southwark Playhouse is matched by looking forward to a new retelling of Oscar Wilde's 1890s classic novel The Picture Of Dorian Gray - a very readable, sharp and witty masterpiece of timeless societal observation, morals challenged by vanity and curiosity, not only of the Victorian era but … Continue reading It’s a challenger: Dorian – The Musical at the Southwark Playhouse