Sexy Dance and Spectacle Fight Ritual of "Salomé" at National Theatre
"Salomé" at the National Theatre is certainly spectacular. We have come to expect nothing less from South African writer-director Yaël Farber, as shown by her "Les Blancs" at the Olivier last year.Her latest work comes on more like a staged religious ritual than a play. It starts promisingly. There is hypnotic chanting growing ever scarier, deep gloom and the anti-heroine "Salomé so called" (Isabella Nefar) sile…