Abbey, Dublin"All art is quite useless," is the first line of Neil Bartlett's arresting adaptation that offers up Oscar Wilde's 1891 novel as a play within a play, one that is a cross between a dark thriller and a timeless Greek tragedy complete with a vengeful, gossip-mongering chorus who are both witnesses and accessories to the crime. It's a good place to start, because the blonde bombshell, Dorian Gray (a terrifi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AM on October 7, 2012