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Blood and ecstasy

Blood and ecstasy

Lydia Steier directs Salome in Paris (*****)

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Oct 30, 2022
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Elza van den Heever as Salome © Agathe Poupeney

Author: Jos Hermans

Oscar Wilde noted that his intention with Salome was to write a play about "a woman dancing with her bare feet in the blood of a man she craved for and had slain." He derailed the sexual obsession and lust of a young teenage girl as evil incarnate. Nothing, he claimed, can be as evil than…

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