The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Guy Wilson, based on the novel by Oscar Wilde
 
The artist Basil Hallward has painted a portrait of a beautiful
young man, Dorian Gray. When he sees the portrait, Dorian
wishes that he could always remain as beautiful as he appears
in the portrait - and that the picture, instead, should grow old
and ugly.
The wish is granted! Dorian lives a wild life of excess and
debauchery, stooping even to blackmail and murder - but he
remains young and beautiful. Meanwhile, the picture shows
all the corruption of his soul…
 
Oscar Wilde's fascinating novel is a modern version of
the Faust legend, and a classic of late nineteenth-century
literature, expressing the decadence and the aestheticism
of the fin de siècle.