NEW YORK ‒ One woman, two hours and 26 wildly eccentric characters. If your head is already spinning, then buckle up. In director Kip Williams’ audacious, gender-bent adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 1890 ...
The personal life and writings of Oscar Wilde have been so inextricably linked that the new play DORIAN has woven Wilde's journey into that of one of his best known characters, Dorian Gray. In an ...
This is the rare revival that is worse for those familiar with the source material, who are bound to be disappointed. Williams seems to have fundamentally misunderstood the novel, or at the very least ...
In a stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Snook plays all the characters — with the help of screens. By Houman Barekat The critic Houman Barekat saw the show in London. A ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The “Succession” actress plays all 26 roles in this Oscar Wilde classic reimagined as a video spectacle. If only there were less screen time and more ...
Camera Operators: clew, Luka Kain, Natalie Rich, Benjamin Sheen, Dara Woo Running time: 2 hrs (no intermission) Deadline’s takeaway: If only Oscar Wilde were alive to offer up a pithy description of ...
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Oscar Wilde was not a man who lived in fear, but early reviews of “The Picture of Dorian Gray” must have given him pause. The story, telling of a man who never ages while his portrait turns decrepit, ...
For almost fifteen minutes, we sit looking at a vertical screen on a seemingly empty stage. In the projection, the Australian actress Sarah Snook, in tight closeup, speaks the rapid, bantering prose ...
Literature often provides a window to illuminate psychological concepts and provide insight into what can propel a person towards extreme aberrant behavior, including psychopathy. Two examples are ...