“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 →