Pictures of Dorian Gray review " too many perspectives
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughA role-swapping, multiple-version adaptation of Wilde's novel is too tricksy for its own goodWhy "pictures"? Just as in Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel, there is, in Lucy Shaw's adaptation, only one portrait that mysteriously reveals the "leprosies of sin" that rot the soul of Dorian Gray, even as his physical form stays young and beautiful. (William Reynolds's design frames water, lit by …