In the new Broadway production of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Sarah Snook, best known for dishing out barbs as Shiv Roy on Succession, plays the title character, the vain Victorian fuckboy who wishes that only his portrait would grow old while he remains forever young. That, in itself, is a feat: a woman taking on a canonically male role. But Snook doesn't stop there. She also plays 25 other roles, male and female, over the course of two hours (with no intermission), acting entirely opposite herself.
What unfolds is a mindblowing theatrical experience that updates Dorian for the 21st century, while making Oscar Wilde’s classic story feel more relevant than ever. It is, after all, about self-obsession, and we live in a self-obsessed age.
