When audiences rise to their feet, night after night, in a swelling standing ovation for Eryn Jean Norvill who plays 26 characters on stage and screen in Sydney Theatre Company’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the actor is feeling one thing: “I am in shock”.
“I’ve come from the most isolated period of my life and to step back into a sense of communion with an audience, and with myself as someone who makes art, it is overwhelming to have that connective tissue so loudly yelled at me – Yes! Yes, we are all part of this community. It is such a stark contrast from where I’ve been … it’s been quite a lonely time,” she says.
