HEADHUNTERS
“In this installation and performance, artists Tom Cole and Jen Collins present the culmination of five years of collaboration. Combining elements from their recent work — Jaundice, Céline, and Whorehouse Crackhouse — with Oscar Wilde’s Salome, this multimedia event will transform Jay Critchley’s Theater in the Ground at Septic Space in Provincetown into a brothel, a drug den, a jail, a gym, and amateur night at the Apollo.” (from the press release)
“How wasted he is! He is like a thin ivory statue. He is like an image of silver. I am sure he is chaste, as the moon is. He is like a moonbeam, like a shaft of silver. His flesh must be very cold, cold as ivory… I would look closer at him.” (from Salome by Oscar Wilde, first published 1894)
Presented at Theater in the Ground at Septic Space, Provincetown, Mass., on August 4, 1999.
Boston Globe Calendar, July 15, 1999
Performed by Tom Cole and Jen Collins
Camera: Lydia Eccles
how dark it is down there
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phantom uvula syndrome
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new kind of therapy
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daughter of babylon
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bring me the head of this man
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dance of the seven veils
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he is like a moonbeam
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interview
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