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Sarah Snook Goes Fantastically Wilde In ‘The Picture Of Dorian Gray’ – Broadway Review
Deadline's review of Broadway's 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray' starring 'Succession's Sarah Snook.
Equal parts acting masterclass, tech wizardry, illusion and clockwork stage management, all costumed and set designed with the wit and color schemes of the most vivid Cindy Sherman photographs, Dorian Gray marks audacious Broadway debuts by both Snook and director-adaptor Kip Williams. Opening with a close-up shot of Snook’s face on one of what will be many hanging panels, the actor narrates Wilde’s plot-setting scene in which painter Basil Hallward and friend Sir Henry Wotton discuss the youthful Dorian Gray, the artist’s latest muse (though that seems too tame a word for the lust this version makes no attempt to hide). You know the Faustian premise made here: As Dorian remains forever young and increasingly dastardly, the painted image hidden away in the attic grows older and more desiccated, new wrinkles and rot with every amoral, immoral and downright nasty act the libertine makes.
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