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By Brian Marks
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the major dividing line in the life of Oscar Wilde, the work that…
What City Lit's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel"transported nearly one hundred years into the future"picks up in contemporaneous reference it loses in tact and taste.
DIFFICULT TO PICTURE The Picture of Dorian Gray is its author's self-portrait — perversely paradoxical, sardonically aesthetic, and (necessarily) obsessed with concealment. First pu…
The defining wit of Oscar Wilde shines through brightly in this subtle yet inventive adaptation of the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray from Boxtale Soup. The novel is the well-known and fr…
This week the London theatre bloggers discuss Cymbeline at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, The Rolling Stone at the Orange Tree, The Picture of Dorian Gray at Trafalgar Studios and The Long Roa…
To today's liberal, British audience, the notion of being censored and jailed for writing a hedonistic and homoerotic text is an alien concept. However in 1891, when Oscar Wilde published hi…
When The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published in 1890 by Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, it caused a great scandal, despite already having been heavily censored by the magazine's editor…
If it tells you nothing else, The Picture of Dorian Gray reminds you Oscar Wilde was a playwright not a novelist and this, his only work of prose fiction, emerges as a script with merely min…
By Jessica Wretlind
The Picture Of Dorian Gray Trafalgar Studios 2 20 January 2016 2 Stars Buy Tickets This adaptation restores passages from Wilde's original manuscript, which were censored…
Trafalgar Studios 2, LondonIt's the work of his grandson, but this adaptation of Oscar Wilde's great novella is miscast, plodding and dullWickedness has seldom been made to seem quite so dul…
MORE POIGNANT THAN POISONOUS: A 125TH ANNIVERSARY MARKED One wit called it 'the first French novel in English', with its seductive evocation of exotic decadence and corrupting wickedn…
The Alchemic Order's The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imaginative production, impressive in its scope. Taking place in a secret location, the performance immerses spectators into a world of …
