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Salome | Theatre review by Michael Billington

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…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 6:36am on May 10, 2017

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