The Broadway adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, starring Sarah Snook, engages audiences with an intriguing premise, but ultimately falters due to its heavy reliance on video technology. For the first part of the show, Snook acts as a one-woman cast, reading and performing various characters while surrounded by crew operating cameras. Despite her charismatic performance, the presentation feels cheap and does not fully embrace the live theater experience, leading to a disappointing reception.
"It's not an overstatement to say that I despised this style of theater, if you could even call it that. While the words were intoxicating and the performer charismatic, the presentation felt cheap and deficient."
"What follows is a by-heart reading of the start of the book-I'm pretty sure, at least, because I've never read it. Snook does the narration and the dialogue, and then the scope expands, but only sort of."
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