For her madman, only one woman adapts an adaptation on stage of Oscar Wilde’s novel in 1891 “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, Sarah Snook is the best actress of this year in a winner of the play. Although she plays 26 roles, she will only get Tony’s statuette.
During the two frantic hours of the show, the actress, 37 years old, especially known for her award-winning turn at the Emmy Emmy as a daughter of Logan Roy, Shiv, on the dark comedy of HBO, “succession”, plays all the characters, among them a beautiful rake, a libertine-sippling Martini and a more malicious artist.
The public obtains a close view of the snook on a large rectangular screen which is suspended at the top of the scene while the cameras follow it on the stage, dedicates it and re-regulting, and interacting with the pre-recorded versions of itself.
“It is a question of concealing and revealing, putting masks, of withdrawing masks,” said Snook, who made his debut on Broadway in the series, said to the New York Times this spring. “It’s about seeing your soul.”
Snook initially played the show last year in the West End of London, where she won the Olivier Award and where the criticisms praised the work of intelligent production of production And the chameleonic and playful incarnation of snook of the different characters.
Critics in the United States have been more measured: writing in Times, Jesse Green praised her “convincing and convincing” characteristicsHowever, noted that the abundant use of technology has left production by feeling “brittle”, “often denies human contact and the contract, which are at the heart of the effectiveness of the theater”. (Although production, he noted, was “technologically spectacular”.)))
