Jun 23, 2017
Taking the Veil
SALOME
The Swan, Stratford upon Avon, Thursday 22nd June, 2017
Oscar Wilde’s one-act tragedy is far from a particular favourite of mine. I prefer his epigrammatic, frothy word play to the heightened, florid language of this retelling of the Biblical story, where the characters speak mainly in similes and declamations. How refreshing it is when Herodias proclaims, “The moon is like the moon!”…
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