Dorian Gray (Bourne) People you wouldn’t look at suddenly become fascinating." "Dorian Gray"'s run at the Edinburgh International Festival sold over 11,000 tickets, making it the biggest selling dance event in the festival's history. Reviewers have generally praised the imaginative choreography, costume changes and staging. Dorian Gray (Bourne) Matthew Bourne's "Dorian Gray" is a contemporary dance adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray", by choreographer Matthew Bourne. The show made its debut in August 2008 at the Edinburgh International Festival and transferred to Sadler's Wells Theatre in London in September 2008. The music was composed by Terry Davies for a
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film) his sins in physical form. The portrait, by contrast, once more shows Dorian Gray as a young, innocent man. Two paintings of the character Dorian Gray were used in the film. The painting entitled "Picture of Dorian Gray" used at the end of the film was painted on commission during the making of the film in 1943-1944 by Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, an American artist who was well known as a painter of the macabre. Created specifically for use in the film, it is now part of the art collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Albright had to paint