The Abbey Theatre is presenting 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' from the 3rd October to the 17th November for the 2012 Dublin Theatre Festival. Wilde's masterpiece was the selected book for 2010 Dublin: One City, One Book.
This production has been especially commissioned from leading theatre-maker Neil Bartlett, one of Britain’s most acclaimed and original theatre-makers.
Note: This 'Reading Guide' is reproduced here courtesy of Penguin Books.
DORIAN GRAY: ABOUT THE BOOK
‘If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that – for that – I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!’
'The whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it'.
Dorian Gray is young, rich and beautiful. When he sees an exquisite portrait of himself, he is bewitched and offers his soul in exchange for eternal youth and good looks.
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'The whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it'.
'The whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it'.