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YELENA GLUZMAN |
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Plays by Yelena Gluzman |
School for Salomes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Collapsable Hole, 146 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg (Brooklyn), NY | 21 Sep 2011 | ||||
Company: | Science Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132418 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | At the end of the19th century, Oscar Wilde's Salome opened to scandal and acclaim. Within a year, the Salome craze had hit, and the American vaudeville circuit was full of them: dramatic Salomes, artistic Salomes, comic Salomes, often with rapidly disappearing costumes, waving their seven veils and fainting over papier-māche heads of John the Baptist. To meet the new demand, a School for Salomes opened in New York and, by 1908, was turning out 150 hopeful Salomes per month. All Salome wanted was John, the aesthetic ascetic whose skin glowed white and whose eyes were pure and black and burning. When John rejects Salome, she quickly learns to use her body to get what she wants. And this is what we want: to get control, to use what we have to get what we want, to do our dance and feel powerful and visible and kinetic. This is why Salome is our hero, our guide and our teacher. Our lives are full of addictions and cravings and aching and longing, and Salome teaches us to take control. | |||||
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