SCENA Theatre's 'Salome' is unusual, mostly satisfying

Oscar Wilde's 1891 play "Salome," at once poetic, lurid and dreamlike, lends itself to SCENA Theatre's almost campy staging at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. Even before it begins, the show grabs an audience's attention with improbable and striking atmospherics. Music of the Roaring Twenties jangles from the speakers while designer Michael C. Stepowany's plain black-and-white set, with its long table and matching chairs, looks like a dais awaiting guests at a formal gala. A backdrop of blue s...