Producers of a new stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray starring Succession’s Sarah Snook have released a first-look photo.
Sarah Snook plays all 26 characters in this new one-person adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic novel, which is coming to London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket in February 2024.
News of the show was announced back in June. The dates were originally 23 January to 13 April 2024., but has now been pushed back to run at the Haymarket from 6 February to 11 May 2024.
The production was first seen at Sydney Theatre Company in 2020, and is adapted and directed by Sydney Theatre Company artistic director, Kip Williams.
The production is the first of a new partnership between Australian mega-producer Michael Cassel and Sydney Theatre Company, and they plan to export more of Sydney Theatre Company’s productions worldwide.
The Picture of Dorian Gray will lean heavily on technology, with intricately choreographed on-stage cameras helping to bring Sarah Snook’s performance as 26 characters from the novel to life. This will be achieved by a creative team that includes Design by Marg Horwell, Lighting Design by Nick Schlieper, Composition & Sound Design by Clemence Williams, Video Design by David Bergman and Eryn Jean Norvill is the Dramaturg & Creative Associate.
The line-up of other producers suggests the shows plans to travel further, namely Broadway, with New York producers Daryl Roth, Amanda Lipitz and Henry Tisch joining UK-based producers Adam Kenwright and his Kindred Partners, Theatre Royal Haymarket owner Len Blavatnik and Danny Cohen who runs Blavatnik’s Access Entertainment company, and UK director and producer Jonathan Church.
Sarah Snook made her West End debut in the 2016 production of The Master Builder starring Ralph Fiennes and directed by Matthew Warchus.
She has achieved international fame through her acclaimed, multi-award winning performance as Shiv Roy in HBO’s Succession. Her other credits include movie The Beautiful Lie, and Saint Joan.
Snook will be performing in London at the same time as her Succession father, with co-star Brian Cox playing in Long Day’s Journey Into Night at the Wyndham’s Theatre from 19 March 2024; and just after her on-screen mother Harriet Walter stars in The House of Bernarda Alba at the National Theatre from 16 November 2023 to 6 January 2024. Jeremy Strong will also be leading a revival of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People on Broadway in early 2024.
Currently playing at the Theatre Royal Haymarket is Michael Frayn’s comedy Noises Off starring Felicity Kendal, Matthew Horne and Tamzin Outhwaite.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is playing the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 6 February to 11 May 2024.
More about tickets to The Picture of Dorian Gray at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London
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