Re-Interpretation of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY to be Staged at the Festival of Sex, Love and Death at the Pleasance Theatre

Ruby In The Dust announce their involvement in the Festival of Sex, Love and Death: a brand new multi-arts festival featuring an innovative and exciting programme of events: opera, cabaret, physical theatre, new writing and spoken word. The festival will form a melting pot of theatre-makers connected by the key forces that drive how we perceive and experience our lives: sex, love and death. The festival runs at the Pleasance Theatre from 22nd June to 1st July.

For two nights - Saturday 24th June and Saturday 1st July - Ruby In The Dust will be presenting their musical interpretation, inspired by Oscar Wilde's gothic novel. Titled "The Extraordinary Cabaret of DorIan Gray", it is set in the last few delirious hours of DorIan Gray's life. As he watches his decadent life flash before him, what he glimpses is a far cry from the opera houses, the salons and the gentlemen's clubs. Join him as he delves into the darker, murkier underbelly of London: the cabaret clubs and opium dens, where sex and death share the same bed. And where love dare not speak its name.

Featuring the music and lyrics of composer Joe Evans, and book by Linnie Reedman, the production traces the life of one of literature's most notorious characters, revealing each character's quest for love: the ultimate sensation!

Casting to be announced. The Extraordinary Cabaret of DorIan Gray is an immersive experience, involving the audience, making them experience Dorian's magic, so that they too may fall victim to his charms.

Tickets are £12 and £10. For information and booking call 020 7609 1800 or visit www.pleasance.co.uk.

For information about Ruby In The Dust visit www.rubyinthedusttheatre.london.

At the heart of the ten-day festival at the Pleasance Theatre in Islington is HeadFirst Production's interpretation of Mozart's masterpiece; "Don Giovanni", around which seven other companies will run in rep, thematically linked by the themes of sex, love and death. The full programme comprises, in the various categories: Sex, Love & Death: Don Giovanni (HeadFirst Productions), Sex: Submission (Liver and Lung Productions) & Halbwelt Kultur (wanderlust), Love: The Extraordinary Cabaret of DorIan Gray (Ruby in the Dust Theatre), Death: Buried Alive (Oskar McCarthy) & Mortgage (Created a Monster), Sex & Death: Whalebone (Hatch It Theatre) & Silent Meat (David Levesley)