"Salomé" by Oscar Wilde

"Salomé": Oscar Wilde's Sexiest, Sauciest, Most Controversial Masterwork

When the theater's most outrageous playwright, the inimitable Oscar Wilde, decided to adapt a Bible story for the stage -- the result was anything but a stuffy Sunday school skit. Banned in Britain for nearly 40 years, "Salomé" was perhaps Wilde's most erotically charged, sumptuously imagined work. Salomé, stepdaughter of the wicked King Herod, shocks her fairly un-shockable stepfather when she requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the "dance of the seven veils". This scandalous tale of truly Biblical proportions still strikes a nerve with audiences, just as Wilde's language still enchants. Now "Salomé" entices, provokes and amazes once more at Corner Office NYC Theater.