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Penny dreadful dorian gray9/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The paradox of The Picture is that the portrait is painted in the contemporary London of Wilde’s time, but as time passes and Dorian looks no older, we don’t move forward into the first half of the twentieth century (well, we do in the Oliver Parker film adaptation, but that’s another story). Like Wilde’s novel, and like Dorian Gray himself, Penny Dreadful is destined to be forever trapped in fin de siècle London: Referencing my reading of the show’s ending through Frankenstein and Dracula, Poore adds his own analysis of Penny Dreadful and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). ‘Perpetual Night’ (episode 8) wraps up Victor Frankenstein’s story, and ‘The Blessed Dark’ (episode 9) presents the final showdown with Dracula, the season’s main antagonist. This week I discovered that Benjamin Poore – author of Heritage, Nostalgia and Modern British Theatre: Staging the Victorians (Palgrave, 2012) and the recent article ‘The Transformed Beast: Penny Dreadful, Adaptation, and the Gothic’ – has cited my reviews in his own blog post with the Journal of Victorian Culture. In my final post, I talked a bit about the show’s intertextual relationships with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). You may recall that I spent the first part of the year reviewing the last season of Penny Dreadful for the Victorianist blog. In 2014, Carney was cast as Dorian Gray in the Showtime series Penny Dreadful.This post contains minor plot details from seasons 1-3 of Penny Dreadful. He played his final performance on Sunday, September 15, 2013.Ĭarney has also been named a Givenik Ambassador.Ĭarney played Taylor Swift's love interest in her "I Knew You Were Trouble" music video. The rest of the band performed as part of the pit orchestra for Turn Off the Dark. He starred for 3 years as Spider-Man in the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, which began previews in November 2010. Since 2010, Carney has lived in Manhattan. The band opened for Arcade Fire and U2 in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada on July 30 on the final date of the U2 360° Tour. His second band, Carney, consisted of Reeve, Zane on guitar, Aiden Moore on bass and Jon Epcar on drums. His first band, Reeve Carney and the Revolving Band, consisted of brother Zane, sister Paris, JD Lipscomb (Aiden Moore) on bass and Gavin Salmon on drums, and toured extensively with blues legend Jonny Lang while Reeve simultaneously played guitar in Lang's band. He went on to study at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, majoring in studio jazz guitar.Īt age 15, Carney was playing guitar professionally at B.B King's night club in Los Angeles, California. His great uncle was the late actor Art Carney.Ĭarney attended the Academy of Music at Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles with his brother, Zane and future band mates Aiden Moore and Jon Epcar. He appeared in the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark as the character of Peter Parker/Spider-Man.Ĭarney was born and raised in the West Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA, with his brother Zane and sister Paris. ![]() Reeve Carney is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Reeve Carney is the actor who portrays the main character Dorian Gray on Penny Dreadful. ![]()
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