Salome August 5, 2011

The National Pastime Theater, Chicago's premier theatrical provocateurs, presents their third annual fine arts festival "Naked July: Art Stripped Down." The entire month of July will be filled with lovely, provoking and aggressive bodies. NPT's festival aims to reveal the human body as beautiful in every shape, size and color (including Technicolor). By exposing these physical differences, audiences discover the innate similarities in all human bodies - we are all made of the same material both natural and beautiful. Purity is the theme of this year's festival, which celebrates the unadulterated nature of nakedness. NPT uses the theme of Purity to thread together the elements of live theater, painting, music, film and special events. On the main stage this year, the National Pastime Theater presents 'Salome' by Oscar Wilde directed by Laurence Bryan, produced by The National Pastime Theater. This one act play chronicles the biblical story of Salome, whose famed Dance of the Seven Veils earned her the plated head of John the Baptist.