
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 9:30pm
Main Art Theatre, Royal Oak
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This contemporary adaptation of Oscar Wilde's
classic tale of vanity re-imagines the famous portrait
as a multimedia installation. When the young,
hauntingly beautiful, wealthy, and virtuous Dorian
Gray (David Gallagher of 7th Heaven) sees his
image for the first time, he resents it, wishing it
would grow old and ugly instead of him. Someone
should have told him to be careful what you wish
for. Fully exploring the homoeroticism Wilde only
hinted at, and employing multiple screens and title
cards, Duncan Roy (AKA) mirrors our beauty and
youth obsessed culture, and navigates some of the
darkest corners of human nature.

Once institutionalized by his homophobic father,
a gay man returns home to save his niece from
a similar fate.
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