News: First look at star-studded digital production of The Picture of Dorian Gray


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March 2, 2021
News: First look at star-studded digital production of The Picture of Dorian Gray

Images from Barn Theatre’s star-studded upcoming digital production of The Picture of Dorian Gray have been released. A contemporary take on Oscar Wilde’s classic, the adaptation brings the Faustian tale kicking and screaming into a world of Instagram, Facebook and dating apps.

Starring Fionn Whitehead (DunkirkBlack Mirror: Bandersnatch) as Dorian Gray, Alfred Enoch as Harry Wotton, Joanna Lumley as Lady Narborough, Emma McDonald as Sibyl Vane and Russell Tovey as Basil Hallward and Stephen Fry as the Interviewer.

The show is from the creative team behind the award-winning What a Carve Up!, and will be filmed on location at the Barn Theatre in Cirencester. Dorian Gray will utilise elements found in radio plays, films, documentaries as well as traditional theatrical techniques.

Based on the novel by Oscar Wilde, the production is written by Henry Filloux-Bennett with direction by Tamara Harvey, set and costume design by Holly Pigott, assistant direction by Eleri JonesBenjamin Collins as director of photography, sound design and original music by Harry Smith and original song by Jared Zeus.

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