Attenborough Centre, BrightonInviting guest performers of all ages to serve as art objects, Gob Squad’s show is a meditation on beauty and decay Beauty, creativity and decay are neatly entwined in this latest show from the Anglo-German company Gob Squad, who riff on the triangle of relationships in Oscar Wilde’s A Picture of Dorian Gray between Basil the painter, Lord Henry the spectator and Dorian the subject or artwork. If that sounds a mite dry. well, yes, sometimes it is. But it is also slyly funny. As Johanna Freiburg, Berit Stumpf and Simon Will are joined on stage by a group of guest performers ranging in age from 19 to their late 60s, all of whom are used to being gazed at, this becomes a woozily beautiful meditation on intention, perception, what we see and what remains invisible. Continue reading…
Via: Creation (Pictures for Dorian) review – woozy walk on the Wilde side

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