The fact that Kip Williams is leaving the Sydney Theatre Company to stage The Picture of Dorian Gray with Sarah Snook in New York is inevitably a reminder of Oscar Wilde who is the subject of the Australian Ballet’s new show Oscar.
It’s extraordinary to reflect on the dramatic brilliance of every aspect of Wilde’s life – which managed to encompass tragedy as his imprisonment and the grave and terrible letter to his intimate Bosie, Lord Alfred Douglas, testify: De Profundis is an extraordinary expression of pain and desolation.
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