Join us as we celebrate the beginning of Summer and the end of our 20th Anniversary season!
  
We'll provide FREE sangria and FREE goodies from PiQ Italian Cafe before the performance of SALOMANIA. You provide the friends. We'll also throw in a post-show discussion with Aurora staff and members of the cast and artistic team!
  
Tickets for the whole sha-bang are only $25! Just use the code SALOCONSTELLATION online at www.auroratheatre.org or by phone at 510.843.4822.
  
Friday, June 29, 2012
6:30pm
Aurora Theatre Company
2081 Addison Street, Berkeley
Just 1/2 block from Downtown Berkeley BART!
  
Can't wait to see you there!
  
world premiere
SALOMANIA
written & directed by Mark Jackson
  
Playing June 15th - July 22nd
  
Award-winning Bay Area auteur Mark Jackson returns to Aurora to direct this World Premiere, specially commissioned for our 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 with a lawsuit that destroyed her career. Whereas SALOME was Oscar Wilde's wild take on the infamous Biblical temptress, 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.
  
Featuring:
Mark Anderson Phillips*
Madeline H.D. Brown*
Kevin Clarke
Alex Moggridge*
Anthony Nemirovsky*
Marilee Talkington*
Liam Vincent*
  
Design:
Nina Ball sets
Heather Basarab lights
Chris Black choreography
Callie Floor+ costumes
Matthew Stines sound
  
*Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers
+Member, United Scenic Artists