Succession’s Sarah Snook is returning to the stage in London, and probably Broadway, to tackle an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Image of Dorian Grey, a darkish story of a portrait that ages as its topic stays endlessly younger.

The Emmy-nominated actress may have the gargantuan activity of taking part in all 26 characters in Dorian Grey when it opens on the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London’s West Finish in January 2024 for a restricted 12-week season.

It’s a mammoth endeavor for a solo artist who might be required to be on stage for 2 hours with out an interval.

The present was devised by Kip Williams, the creative director of Australia’s celebrated Sydney Theatre Firm. It premiered in Sydney with actress Eryn Jean Norvill creating the half — or elements, as a result of there are 26 of them.

These linked with it have described the present as “cine-theatre.”

Snook will start getting ready and rehearsing within the fall and she or he’ll be requested to movie characters after which work together with them onstage. I haven’t seen it so I’m unable to totally clarify, however those that caught the manufacturing in Sydney raved about it and described a set stuffed with screens with the thespian on the boards speaking to footage of themselves dressed as varied characters.

Snook deservedly gained plaudits for her efficiency as scheming Shiv Roy within the HBO drama Succession, which ended its four-season run in Might. Few know that she’s additionally an outstanding theater performer. A number of years in the past I caught her in a manufacturing of Ibsen’s The Grasp Builder, starring alongside Ralph Fiennes on the Previous Vic.

Because it occurs, Jeremy Robust, who performed large brother Kendall Roy, might be main a revival of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the Folks on Broadway, additionally early in 2024, tailored by Amy Herzog and directed by Sam Gold.

Different members of the fictional Roy household are additionally headed for theater runs:

Brian Cox, who performed patriarch Logan Roy, will star with Patricia Clarkson in Eugene O’Neill’s Lengthy Day’s Journey Into Evening operating at Wyndham’s Theatre in London from March 19 by way of June 8. It has already offered 75 p.c of its seats; it’s an exceptional advance sale, much more so for a four-act marathon drama.

Harriet Walter, Logan’s ex-wife and Waystar shareholder Girl Caroline (Shiv’s mom) on Succession, can also be brushing up on the classics. She is going to headline a revival of Federico Garcia Lorca’s The Home of Bernardo Alba on the Nationwide Theatre’s Lyttelton home starting in November. It’s based mostly on an adaptation by Alice Birch.   

All we want now could be for Kieran Culkin to star in some Greek tragedy a few lad with mummy points, and the Roy theater troupe might be full.

The London manufacturing of The Image of Dorian Grey is costing a bundle and a sizzling star was required to assist it recoup. 

Snook is that star; many really feel that the fourth season of Succession belonged to her. My sense is that when tickets go on sale she’ll beat “daddy” Brian Cox on the field workplace.

Fascinating, when you concentrate on it, that Snook has chosen to do Dorian Grey, a chief instance of late-Victorian Gothic fiction that explored darkish wishes and forbidden pleasures in Nineties London.

Partly, Succession additionally studied devotion to decadence and sensuous pleasures.

If the present takes off in London then, from what I perceive, will probably be headed to Broadway for a season. Nevertheless, any switch could be depending on Snook and her household: she just lately introduced the beginning of her first youngster.

Producers Michael Cassel and Adam Kenwright have contracted the play to run on the Haymarket from January 23-April 13.