Theatre review: Salome

[nick730]

Or, John the Baptist: Beyond Thunderdome, because as soon as you walk into the Hampstead Theatre's auditorium it's obvious how much inspiration designer Soutra Gilmour has taken from Mad Max. There's a huge gravel pit, a raised metal grille and men in tattered combat gear hanging off scaffolding. This is a world where at the centre is a prison cell

Comments

[nick730]

Definitely fluids, because at least if you're covering the cast with blood/wine/mud like in this, you know what the fluids are in advance and it's all controlled. Whereas kids/animals would probably piss themselves so you'd get the fluids anyway.

(Boring answer would still be fluids because I like sets that degrade/get dirtier over the course of the performance so a stage and actors getting covered in mud/blood/oil etc is an extension of that.)