The plays by the young playwright Petr Kolečko (Soumrak bodů , Britney Goes to Heaven , Láska, vole , Bohové hokej nehrají , Soprán ze Slapské přehrady) won many awards already – his latest text, an impromptu called Kauza Salome [The Salome Case] has been staged by the Prague theatre A studio Rubín.
Kolečko was inspired by Oscar Wilde’s famous and scandalous play from the turn of 20th Century putting both Biblical characters – Salome and John the Baptist or Jochanaan – into the decadent world of late Victorian fin de siècle world, ridiculing the later, sending it up and using cleverly quotes and references.
Kolečko updates the subject matter – Salome is sixteen, a daughter of oil magnate and could have anything she wants, even a “tamed crocodile who could shit into a rubbish bin”. Her father Herodes is ready to fulfil any of her desire.
More information:
V. Hulec: Salome podle Petra Kolečka dobře vykresluje generaci zbohatlíků, iDnes.cz, 15.6.2009.