The Picture of Dorian Gray – the Space On The Mile
Oscar Wilde's famous novel (commissioned 125 years ago this month as it happens, during the same dinner that brought back Sherlock Holmes for his second novel) is, in case you didn't know, about a man who gives up his soul to have his portrait age instead of him. It is presented here in a new adaptation curtesy of ETC Theatre Company, promising "a fast-paced adaptation featuring music, slapstick and plenty of Wildean wit".
While I'm not sure I'd agree with the last part of that description outside of the lines plucked straight from the novel - can anything be called Wildean when it includes dancing to Abba and Robbie Williams? - the first two are indeed here in buckets and the show is a joyously silly farce from beginning to end which had its audience laughing throughout.
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