Dancer in the dark

Barrie Kosky directs Salome in Frankfurt (****) [live]

Ambur Braid as Salome © Barbara Aumüller

"It is impossible to stage this work," director Barrie Kosky writes of Salome in his autobiography "Und Vorhang auf, Hallo !" For works that he considers unstageable, he has a recipe : throw out all sets and props, make tabula rasa with all ballast and focus on the essence through actor direction; trusting only th…