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Salome
By Oscar Wilde - Stage play
Roles
- Salome - Teenager (13-19), Young Adult (20-35), Female
About this piece
Salome tries to seduce John the Baptist
Summary
The play is about the biblical story of Salome, the stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas who is married to her mother Herodias. Herod is smitten by Salome's beauty and when asked to dance the "Dance of the Sever Veils" for him, she refuses. Eventually he promises her anything she desires if she accepts to dance for him. To her stepfather's disappointment, Salome asks for the head of Iokanaan (John the Baptist), a prophet who is Herod's prisoner and who had refused Salome's advances. In this monologue Salome has just met the mysterious John the Baptist and expresses her desire to kiss him. As he doesn't give in to her advances, Salome grows angrier and angrier.
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