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'The Vanity of Dorian Gray' by Valerie Goodwin - songs and additional information.


'The Vanity of Dorian Gray' by Valerie Goodwin
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Songs
The following songs are suggestions; other songs may be used at the discretion of the production. Performance rights for the script do not include rights for songs.
Song #Song
1She Was One of the Early Birds (TW Connor)
2There Was I, Waiting at the Church (Fred W. Leigh and Henry E. Pether)
3Your Baby Has Gone Down the Plughole (Anon)
4Polly Perkins of Paddington Green (Harry Clifton)
5She Was Poor but She Was Honest (Anon)
Period and Geography
Location: England. Time Period: 19th Century
Settings and Set Complexity
Number of Sets: 5
Setting: Backstage, A Room and Front-of-Curtain
Set Requirements: Furniture Only
The script includes characters in the following age range(s):
17 to 20
21 to 35
51 to 65
 Language Advisory:Help
Swearing rate: 1 rude word per thousand
We have identified the following types of language in the text:
Mild swearwords
Potential blasphemy
In addition to the text, the "Producer's Copy" of the Script includes the following:
A list of the required properties
A list of the suggested songs
A description of the set requirements
Miscellaneous notes from the author
Style:
Seventy-five minute adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel, peppered with Victorian and Edwardian music hall songs and comedy.
Synopsis:
The hedonistic young man Dorian Gray makes a wish that his portrait would age instead of himself, and the wish comes true. He takes advantage of his eternal youth to court and then dispose of a never-ending line of young women, but four decades later, his sins catch up with him.

 
 

 
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