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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