Wow, a stage adaptation of Dorian Gray. I'll be curious to hear what that's like! Be sure to report back.
It was good! They turned Basil into a photographer, which worked perfectly well as that solved their problem of the transforming picture - they simply used four different photographs over the course of the evening.
If you didn't know better, you would never have guessed that you were watching an adaptation of a novel instead of a play. No overtly narrative passages, and after all,
The Picture of Dorian Gray is full of great dialogue and lots of action, so it was no problem to bring all that alive on stage.
Dorian was played by a woman - for no apparent reason, because apart from that, the production was fairly conventional in terms of costumes, staging etc. She did a fantastic job, though, and after that first moment of realization that she was a woman, I never thought about it again for a single second.
So overall, a good experience, but nothing revelatory. One reason why I am not more enthusiastic could be that I have read the novel three times and watched the recent film version only a few weeks ago. As much as I like the story, I may have overdosed on it