Metamorphosis steven berkoff script10/28/2023 Suddenly I see a new Joan and she looks young and vital'' (from Tough Acts. She is at first aghast at my request and probably more aghast than if I had asked her to strip, but she agrees. ''When we came to shooting.the working-class couple, I managed to persuade Joan to reveal herself on screen for the first time ever without make-up. In the film the two main actors, Steven Berkoff and Joan Collins play two roles each. Opting for a dark, dream like, slow motion performance evoking the silent films of the 1920s. “ Oscar Wilde would have admired actor-director Steven Berkoff’s staging of Salome the poetic drama Wilde adapted from the biblical tale. This is a production of symmetrical beauty.” “Watching the spectacle that is Salome is like sifting grains of a rainbow, with perfect parts of a whole appearing, disappearing, fading off, coming back singly, together in a glowing whole. The play moves to Herod's battle to break his oath, and Salome's incredible scene with the Baptist´s head. The favour she demands though is the head of John the Baptist on a plate. Taken from the New Testament tale, Herod is so infatuated with his stepdaughter Salome that he promises her on oath up to half his kingdom in return for a favour, a libidinous dance. A drama-poem, 'Salome' as written by 0scar Wilde mostly in 1891 stirred by his attraction to Lord Alfred Douglas.
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