»Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray« nach Oscar Wilde

In the organizer's words:

after Oscar Wilde with a commentary by Marcus Peter Tesch (world premiere) // Director: Ran Chai Bar-zvi

The young Dorian Gray models for the artist Basil, who immortalizes him on canvas. When Dorian falls under the spell of the cynical dandy Lord Henry, he begins a dissolute life of uncompromising hedonism. The toxic relationship between Lord Henry, Basil and Dorian continues to escalate. But the debauchery is not without consequences and traces of decay appear - but only on the portrait. Shielded and hidden from public view, it degenerates into a grotesque grimace, while Dorian's appearance remains eternally young, flawless and beautiful.
Oscar Wilde's classic about the (in)transience of beauty and hidden desire is supplemented and updated with texts by playwright Marcus Peter Tesch, whose writing explores the history of bodies and body images and brings them into the present. Director Ran Chai Bar-zvi was recently awarded the Kurt Hübner Directing Prize by the German Academy of Performing Arts and invited to the "Radikal jung" festival. His visually powerful productions also deal with existential subjects with great lightness, without trivializing their serious core. Ran Chai Bar-zvi is celebrating his debut at Schauspiel Frankfurt with "The Picture of Dorian Gray".