The many sides of Salome
Critical Mash returns!
Salome: Pawn or perp? Problem child or femme fatale?
Wilde’s 1892 play about history’s first recorded underage strip-tease artiste ends its run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Robert Thicknesse gathers the plays hot young Russian director Maxim Didenko and cultural polymath Yehuda Shapiro to look at how writers, painters and composers have slavered over John the Baptist’s dancing nemesis …
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