Salomé review " Yaël Farber's portentous take on the myth is a headache
Olivier, LondonThe celebrated writer-director's attempt to radically update and reclaim the story is hamstrung by a terrible text and an over-complex stagingIt's not been a great month for celebrated auteurs. First, Ivo van Hove delivers a lacklustre Obsession at the Barbican. Now Yaël Farber, the South African writer-director rightly acclaimed for Mies Julie and Les Blancs, comes up with a radical revision of the…