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Become Dorian Gray for the April 2010 One City, One Book festival

  By darraghdoyle | October 12, 2009 - 2:51 pm | Books, Events, Fashion, Performance Art, The Arts, The Culch
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This landed in the inbox and I thought it perfect to share. The ‘Dublin: One City, One Book‘ choice for April 2010 is The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and Casting Ireland are looking for cast someone in the role. We are looking to cast our own Dorian to have his full-length portrait painted for the exhibition and to launch the book festival. Costume fitting and the portrait needs to be completed before Christmas, and the festival runs for 3 weeks from April 6th. Dorian would be required to open the festival and to appear around town on the Saturday afternoons to promote the event. The Dorian we are looking for has to resemble the character in the book - someone who looks 22 years of age, tall, slender, short blonde hair(or prepared to go blonde), charming and very good looking. This is a non-speaking role and therefore … There’s more →

Review: The Picture [Of Dorian Gray]

  By Lottie | May 13, 2009 - 2:09 pm | The Culch, Theatre
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“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.” We double-dated it last night to see one of the highlights of The Dublin Gay Theater Festival this year is The Picture (of Dorian Gray) showing that The New Theater. I’ve read the book. In fact, I’ve read the book so often I can almost quote it verbatim but until last night I had never seen Wilde’s 1891 masterpiece (in my opinion) applied to the stage. We took our seats in a small, cosy little theater and I critically eyed the sparsity of the stage. Where was the decadence? The lavish settings I had composed from the pages? Three chairs and some tin-foil? Surely we had stumbled off the cobbles into the wrong venue. I decided there any then … There’s more →