FEMME FATALE: GRAVEYARD, PATH CREATORS TAKING ON WILDE’S SALOMé
Due for release on October 5th — in celebration of the 78th anniversary of the play’s first English performance — The Path and The Graveyard creators Tale of Tales have announced Fatale, a new interactive version of the tale of Salome, based primarily on Oscar Wilde’s 1891 interpretation.
The production will reunite most of the key players involved in the making of the IGF-nominated art piece The Graveyard, including composers and musicians Gerry De Mol, Jarboe and Kris Force, with a yet-unnamed “extremely talented and very well known game artist” working on the character design.
Tale of Tales say players will explore the story — in which Salome, under orders from her mother, seduces her step-father with ‘the dance of seven veils’ so he will agree to behead John the Baptist, who had condemned the mother/step-father’s marriage — “through the emotions and thoughts of the characters involved.”
Add creators Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn:
We’re interested in the idea of a love story that ends in death, but we also want to include other elements of the tale. The fact, for instance, that Salomé may have been just an insecure girl who was manipulated by her mother, Queen Herodias – who then ends up becoming the real “femme fatale”. We’re also very sensitive to the political tension that underlies the tale: a Middle Eastern country -Judea- occupied by Westerners -Romans- at a time of religious unrest -the birth of Christianity. And this girl, Salomé, just has the head chopped off of one of the most important figures of the time. On a whim, apparently, or for unrequited love, changing the course of history.
Follow their progress at the just-launched Fatale site.
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