It's not subtle, but it provides the requisite erotic charge to what is, in effect, the Bible's most lasciviously extended lap dance. Whereas Wilde's play conflates the New Testament with the image-rich cadences of symbolist poetry, Lloyd draws visual parallels with the bootylicious body language of gangsta rap videos and the post-apocalyptic look of Tina Turner's 1980s comeback. Jamie Lloyd's production, a joint venture between Headlong and the Curve, seems determined to be no exception, ramping up Wilde's text into a degenerate vision of dangerous sexual delusion. S alome has been a byword for controversy ever since Oscar Wilde's play was banned for the blasphemous use of biblical characters, and the opera Richard Strauss based on it condemned for the heroine's notorious striptease in the Dance of the Seven Veils.
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