To celebrate Joseph Donohue’s new translation of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé the Press recently collaborated with the university’s drama department on a staged reading of the one-act play. You can watch a clip from the performance here. CNN blogger Eric Marrapodi attended the event, and his report—including an illuminating interview with Donohue—has just been posted on CNN’s Belief Blog. [...]
A reading of Joseph Donohue’s new translation of Oscar Wilde’s one-act tragedy Salomé was staged at Charlottesville’s Live Arts theater on December 2, 2011. This clip comes at a crucial moment in the play’s action, when Salomé, having danced for her stepfather Herodias, reveals to him what the price will be.
Join the University of Virginia Press and Joseph Donohue at Live Arts on Friday, December 2nd at 7:30 pm for a staged reading of this new translation of Salomé, directed by UVA Department of Drama Professor Kate Burke.