{"id":11398,"date":"2012-05-11T02:40:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T01:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11398"},"modified":"2012-07-13T02:17:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T01:17:43","slug":"lindsay-kemps-salome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/05\/11\/lindsay-kemps-salome\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay Kemp’s Salom\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fragments are all you get with this one, unfortunately, but how tantalising they are. Lindsay Kemp’s 1975 stage production of Oscar Wilde’s play was probably the queerest there’s been to date, with Kemp himself playing Herod’s doomed daughter under a heap of silks and feathers. These stills from a sequence of Super-8 shots<\/a> of the performance arrive courtesy of Nendie Pinto-Duchinsky, director of the forthcoming Kemp documentary Lindsay Kemp’s Last Dance<\/em><\/a>, a film whose title echoes Ken Russell’s film<\/a> of the Wilde play. The connections circulate wildly (so to speak) around Kemp’s production: prior to this performance Kemp had acted for Ken Russell, while two of the other actors<\/em> went on to work with Derek Jarman (as did Kemp<\/em>). John the Baptist (above) was played by David Haughton who appeared as Ariel in Jarman’s Jubilee<\/em>; Jack Birkett’s grinning features (bottom, right) appear in many of Jarman’s films. All the more reason to wish these clips were longer.<\/p>\n

The Kemp documentary YouTube channel<\/a> has a few more items related to Kemp’s stage work, notably another tantalising sequence of stills from Flowers<\/em><\/a> (1974), an adaptation of Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers<\/em> that also featured Haughton and Birkett.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Thanks to Suzanne in the comments for pointing to her video<\/a> which includes further film moments including Salom\u00e9 performing with a live snake \u00e0 la<\/em> Salammb\u00f4.<\/p>\n

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Fragments are all you get with this one, unfortunately, but how tantalising they are. Lindsay Kemp’s 1975 stage production of Oscar Wilde’s play was probably the queerest there’s been to date, with Kemp himself playing Herod’s doomed daughter under a heap of silks and feathers. These stills from a sequence of Super-8 shots of the … Continue reading “Lindsay Kemp’s Salom\u00e9”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,5,46],"tags":[3676,511,1374,751,595,1178,116,1270,123],"class_list":["post-11398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-gay","category-theatre","tag-david-haughton","tag-derek-jarman","tag-jack-birkett","tag-jean-genet","tag-ken-russell","tag-lindsay-kemp","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-peter-reed","tag-salome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2XQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}