Twenty-three years after the trial of Oscar Wilde, another celebrity trial rocked early-20th-century British society. Maud Allan — who starred in Wilde’s “Salome,” and, like Wilde, was accused of being a degenerate — became the focus of a legal battle that was just as sensational as the Irish playwright’s.Allan has long deserved a play of her own, and she gets a brilliant one in Mark Jackson’s “Salomania.”
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