Salome: The Seventh Queen
Filed Under (Gothic Tales, Uncategorized) by admin on 22-11-2009
Alla Nazimova as Salome, 1923
New improved version: Salome:The Seventh Queen
I have finally begun. My novella, Salome: The Seventh Queen will be serialized here. Not quite a Faery Tale, but very Gothic and very decadent. I hope you like it. It goes places you never dreamed before…
My story takes up where Oscar Wilde’s scandalous play left off. I played the role of Salome ages ago when I was dancer in The Companions of the Musavir in Seattle in the 1980’s. This story always had a strange effect on me, though I think Wilde’s glorious writing may have had a part to play. This fascination goes on in this story: What if Salome, had lived to regret her demand for the ‘head of Jokanaan”?
Richard Strauss, Salome
Enjoy Maria Kouba’a decadent Salome. She has just the right quality I think.
This is Richard Strauss’s opera televised in 1960. Oh TV what has become of you?
