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Project Salomé is a complex reworking of the 1st-century story of Salomé from the perspective of the victim Salomé herself.
Conceived and directed by Singapore director Ong Keng Sen, this 90 minute play splits itself into three layers
One – actress Janice Koh playing several roles in Oscar Wilde’s 1891 play including Salomé, her stepfather Herod, her mother Herodias and the Syrian captain.
Two – a film screened on stage involving Ong’s encounter with Michael(a) Daoud, a queer performance artist who fled Syria and now lives in Berlin.
Three – Koh also playing a professional tennis player who has an affair with a married politician in a contemporary tale that unfolds on Instagram(@thesalomecomplex) weeks before the show ran, only finding resolution in the last moments of the performance.
Throughout runs the fourth element. A six channel score, composed and performed live by Matthews seated in the middle of the audience. Here you can hear a stereo extract of Scene 1/ the Prologue.
Commissioned by Singapore International Arts festival 2022, this extraordinary collaboration performed at the Victoria Theatre, Singapore 25-28.5.22 to thrilled audiences. PRESS
A film of the perfromance will shortly be available online.
Director Ong Keng Sen in rehearsal at TWorks Singapore May 22. This will be Matthews 3rd large scale collaboration with this extraordinary team. Many thanks to all.