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Phone (510) 843-4822
Price $30.00 - $55.00
Age Suitability 18 and up

Aurora Theatre Company presents 'Salomania'

Friday, Jun 22, 2012 8:00p
Aurora Theatre Company Berkeley, CA

Award-winning Bay Area auteur Mark Jackson returns to Aurora to direct this World Premiere, specially commissioned for its 20th anniversary season. While directing Oscar Wilde's fascinating and sensual play Salome at Aurora in 2006, Jackson discovered the extraordinary story of dancer Maud Allan, a San Francisco native who took Europe by storm in the early 1900's with her version of the "Dance of the Seven Veils." She became notoriously known as "The Salomé Dancer," and was unexpectedly confronted… Show more

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Aurora Theatre Company presents 'Salomania'

Salomania uses Allan's story as a framework to explore themes of media sensationalism, freedom of expression and wartime hysteria - themes as relevant today as they were a century ago.

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Aurora Theatre Company
2081 Addison St.
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 843-4822
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