Salome
Sunday 14 October 2007 20:00-21:30 (Radio 3)
In a new version by Lizzie Hopley.
The myth of Salome and the dance of the seven veils began as a brief reference in the Bible and was later popularised in Wilde's highly sexual rendering of the tale. Hopley's new version focuses on the tense family drama at the centre of the myth.
Set on the brink of a new era - while a young carpenter is travelling across Israel propagating his new religion - the story revolves around a young girl on the threshold of womanhood, who has been torn apart from her father and the world she knows when her mother falls in love with Salome's uncle Herod Antipas.
Duration:
1 hour 30 minutes
Playlist:
Pharisee ...... Ian Brooker
Herod ...... Kenneth Cranham
John the Baptist ...... Tony Curran
Mannai/Saducee ...... Paul Dinnen
Salome ...... Florence Hoath
Joanna ...... Sally Hawkins
Chuza ...... Karl Johnson
Sejanus ...... Gerrard Mcarthur
Herodias ...... Fenella Woolgar
All other parts played by members of the cast.
Director Lu Kemp.
