Memories of Sarah Snook’s commanding Shiv Roy in Succession vanish in the face of the Australian actress’s impish, boggling, one-woman rendition of Oscar Wilde’s story.
Live and recorded footage and grotesque Instagram-filtered selfie visions, shown on a series of dangling screens, mesh with her physical presence as she romps round a playroom stage in a series of outrageous costumes, wigs and stick-on sideburns. It’s a virtuoso performance bereft of vanity. Once you get past the basic premise, that is.
