Salome by Ewelina Marciniak in Munich

A cruel femme fatale or a product of male fantasies? Director Ewelina Marciniak wants to free the title character of her Munich adaptation of "Salome" from this female dilemma and puts another woman by her side. This is an evening that raises many questions. - writes Sabine Leucht in Nachtkritik. The first reviews of the Polish director's latest premiere at the Residenztheater München have already appeared.

The Bible, feminism, Hitler: Ewelina Marciniak's play "Salome" at the Munich Residenztheater is very loosely based on Oscar Wilde. Polish playwright Jarosław Murawski took Oscar Wilde's play "Salome" as the basis for a completely new text, which - and this is the main problem - is not very good", diagnoses Christiane Lutz in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Jacek Cieślak from Rzeczpospolita is more sympathetic to the text itself, emphasizing that it is Jarosław Murawski's best text written for the stage. The Polish reviewer also saw the excellent Munich Salome by Richard Strauss in Krzysztof Warlikowski's staging, which – performed in 20020, took place during the Nazi era, and at the same time is undergoing reconstruction before our eyes.

"Salome", very loosely based on Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss, not only includes the poet and composer of the opera in the plot. The story also has it that Hitler and Strauss met at the opera's premiere in 1906. Ewelina Marciniak's rich production has a lot to offer, emphasizes Anne Fritsch in Münchner Abendzeitung.