Theatre tickets are now on sale for Headlong Theatre’s Salome at the Hampstead Theatre in London this summer. The play by Oscar Wilde will be directed by Jamie Lloyd, and stars Zawe Ashton, Jaye Griffiths and Con O’Neill.

Headlong Theatre’s Salome will premier at The Curve Theatre in Leicester, which is co-producing the show. Rupert Goold is artistic director, and promises a vivid and contemporary take on Oscar Wilde’s tragedy.

Salome is the central character. Her proposition to prisoner John the Baptist is repudiated, for which she is mercilessly angry. When King Herod commands that she perform for him the dance of the seven veils, she demands something in return – the head of John the Baptist.

Previous credits from Zawe Ashton include Glynn Maxwell’s The Frontline at The Globe Theatre in London, and the Lawrence Olivier award winning play Gone Too Far at The Royal Court.

Con O’Neill plays King Herod, and has previously appeared at The Royal Court in Faces In The Crowd, the Vaudeville in Female of The Species, the Comedy Theatre in Prick Up Your Ears and the Tricycle Theatre in The Caretaker.

Griffiths (Herodias) is best known for his screen credits which include Silent Witness, Criminal Justice and The Bill. He has also appeared on stage at the Tricycle Theatre in Seize The Day and Category B.

Headlong Theatre’s previous productions include The Last Days of Judas, Faustus, Six Characters In Search in Of an Author and recent West End transfer Enron.

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