Salomé, National Theatre, review - Yaël Farber's version is verbose and overblown
New twist on the biblical story gets bogged down in a portentous production Is God female? It says a lot about Yaël Farber's overblown new version of this biblical tale that, near the end of an almighty 110-minute extravaganza, all reason seemed to have vacated my brain, and its empty halls, battered by a frenzy of elevated music, heaven-sent lighting and wildly gesturing actors, were suddenly open to the oddest i…