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Sarah Snook plays a succession of 26 characters... and what a Wilde success! PATRICK MARMION reviews the TV star's West End debut in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Well, if you thought this might be a chance to catch the real Siobhan Roy, or rather the real Sarah Snook, unmediated by a film crew, then you'd be wrong. No, it's much more exciting than that

Snook is serviced like a Formula One racing driver by a team of crack stage hands and film crew, deftly and speedily fitting her with cigs, wigs, and facial hair. And then she cunningly mutates into the pretty boy socialite Dorian – winning a laugh with a curly Marilyn wig and stick-on whiskers, set off by a pink velvet coat. But this is an exceptional and unusual piece of work that also presents Snook’s Dorian as a prototype TikTok influencer – editing her face on a mobile phone for plumper lips, longer lashes and bionic eyebrows – and bringing this cautionary tale bang up to date, in form and content.

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