DORIAN GRAY to Run 16 April - 10 May at Riverside Studios
RUBY IN THE DUST presents DORIAN GRAY, adapted by Linnie Reedman from Oscar Wilde's novel, with Music and Lyrics by Joe Evans from April 16 - May 10 2014 at Riverside Studios.
When it was first published in 1890, The Picture of Dorian Gray caused an outcry. Reviewers widely condemned Oscar Wilde's Faustian tale of aestheticism and duplicity, of hedonism and indulgence as "vulgar" and "unclean", "poisonous" and "discreditable", prompting W H Smith to pull copies of the magazine in which it was published from their bookshelves. Such was the public and critical reaction that Wilde subsequently attempted to moderate some of the more homoerotic references in the book and to simplify the book's moral message. Despite upsetting Victorian sensibilities, the novel, which tells the story of a handsome young man who somehow preserves his youthful beauty whilst his hidden portrait gradually reveals his inner ugliness, was to become a classic and has since inspired subsequent generations of musicians, filmmakers, artists and playwrights.
Adapted by Linnie Reedman with music and lyrics by Joe Evans, this adaptation - Dorian Gray recreates the dark, murky underbelly of late Nineteenth Century London - The tawdry theatres, burlesque bars, cabaret clubs and opium dens into which the eponymous anti-hero descends, far far away from the opera houses, the salons and the gentlemen's clubs that he likes to be seen in.Videos