Salome | Theatre review
Hampstead Theatre, LondonMore symbolist poem than play, Oscar Wilde's once-banned Salome invites a strong directorial concept. But where Steven Berkoff memorably gave us a stylised, slow-motion dream, Jamie Lloyd's Headlong production transports the biblical fable to a world of grungy apocalyptic excess; while the result has an undeniable visceral power, it misses the curious moral force behind Wilde's lavish display…