New York penthouse decadence for a shattering new Salome in Geneva
Grand Théâtre de Genève
A quick trip to Switzerland for my first visit to the Grand Théâtre de Genève, a house with a reputation for controversy (and more misses than hits). This one? Hits the bullseye!
“Grab ’em by the pussy!” When Kornél Mundruczó translates the action of Salome to a penthouse bar modelled on the Boom Boom Room with panoramic views across New York, we know exactly what world we’re in. Guests snort cocaine, bouncers in dark glasses with baseball bats manhandle an anti-capitalist protester. A giant gold-sequinned banana is raised priapically over the dancefloor, where Salome writhes and gyrates, before Herodes carries her into the lift and rapes her. The Jews – and Nazarenes – wear MAGA baseball caps. Herodes doesn’t need an orange tan for us to know who he is and what he represents.
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