OSCAR WILDE'S THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY Plays Eureka Theatre, Previews 8/26

Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray adapted for the Stage by John Fisher. Theatre - Comedy-Drama. Production Company: Theatre Rhinoceros

Title: Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray

Adapted for the Stage and Directed by John Fisher

Creative Team: Stephen Chun, John Fisher, AaRon Martinsen, Gloria McDonald, Celia Maurice, Lia Metz, Anthony Powers, Adam Simpson, Christine U'Ren, Jef

Valentine, Maryssa Wanlass

Venue: Eureka Theatre
215 Jackson Street (between Front and Battery)
San Francisco, CA 94111

Previews: Thurs., August 26 - Sat., August 28 @ 800 PM;
Sun., August 29 @ 300 PM

Opening Night: Wed., September 1, 2010 @ 800 PM (Wine

Reception to follow)

Performances: Thursday, September 2nd - Sunday, September 19th

Wed. - Sat. @ 800 PM

Sundays, 9/5, 9/12 and 9/19 @ 300 PM

Box Office: www.TheRhino.org or (800) 838-3006

TIX: $10 - $25 (First two previews 8/26 and 8/27 are "pay what you wish"); Tickets go on sale Monday, July 12, 2010.

About the Production: Oscar Wilde's electrifying novel comes to the stage in this dynamic World Premiere adaptation. Using words, movement, and music this new performance keeps Wilde's story in its own time but highlights the relevance of his fable to our own. Wilde's story of vanity, ambition and lust rocked his world with its frank portrayal of the lives of artists and libertines. This production will utilize a cinematic and "surprise element" technique in its narrative, creating a dreamscape of possibility even as it tells Wilde's story. This story remains potent today in exploring the limits and delimits of desire and ambition. In the tradition of Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Wilde's story even challenges the limits of corporality. Just as the body is mutable, the story telling will be mutable. This sexy, shocking production is at once mystery, fantasy, science fiction and terrifying parable.