A RARE screening of one of the most extraordinary and bizarre silent movies to come out of Hollywood in the 1920s will be given a dramatic twist when t he Sound Affairs company present Salomé at Newport¹s The Riverfront next month.

Four percussionists will perform live a new score specially written for the film by Charlie Barber, playing from two giant towers placed on either side of the screen.

Adapted from the controversial play of the same name by Oscar Wilde, Salomé was produced by and starred the flamboyant Russian actress, Alla Nazimova, one of the most famous stars of her day. However before it was even completed the film was surrounded with the whiff of scandal in the highly conservative America of the time as rumours took h old that Nazimova had insisted on an all gay and bi-sexual cast in honour of Oscar Wilde.

Tickets for Salomé, which is shown on Tuesday, November 3 at 7.30pm, are available from The Riverfront box office on 01633 656 757 and online at www.newport.gov.uk/theriverfront