Salome

It is one of the most interesting and surprising play of Wilde. On the basis of the Gospel he tells about the death of John the Baptist and at the same time he extends that biblical story. He changed the accents and motives of actions of the character.

Means, which the puppet theatre owns, let it to show the symbolic sense of and universal meanings of that elaborated drama written by that Irish author. In the performance there is a clash of two different worlds: ethical dubious, dead, disintegrated Herod’s kingdom and reality of spiritual world which comes from Heaven represented by John the Baptist. Salome, Herod’s stepdaughter, who fell in love with John the Baptist, is standing between these two worlds. Her love is definitely going to suffer defeat. Salome is lost in her feelings which are in her heart: an aversion to world in which she grew up, desire of love, lust for revenge after being left. Inspite of all of it, she wants to prove her right to love. She believes that love is stronger than death.

written by: Oskar Wilde
directed by: Oleg Żiugżda
stage design: Larysa Mikina-Probodiak
music: Bogdan Szczepański
choreography: Marta Bury

cast:
Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Judea: Piotr Pańczak
Herodiada, Herod’s wife: Jadwiga Domka
Salome, Herodiada’s daughter: Marta Bury
Jokanaan, prophet: Grzegorz Eckert
Young Syrian: Tomasz Kuliberda
Herodiada’s Page: Paweł Pawlik/Henryk Hryniewicki (since 2009)
Soldiers: Tomasz Kuliberda, Paweł Pawlik/Henryk Hryniewicki (since 2009)
Courtiers, Herod’s guests, Jews: Bogusław Michałek, Andrzej Piecuch
Herodiada’s and Salome’s Slaves: Kamila Rybacka, Małgorzata Szczyrek
The Angel of Death: Bogusław Michałek
Puppet animation: team

duration: 65 minutes