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See F. Scott Fitzgerald beloved novel The Great Gatsby adapted for the stage - with every written word included.
Booking from: Friday, 8th June 2012
Booking until: Sunday, 15th July 2012
Matinees: Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 2.30pm
Running time: 8 hours
Playing at the Noel Coward Theatre.
James Gatz  that was really, or at least legally, his name.
One morning in the shabby office of a mysterious small business, an employee finds a copy of The Great Gatsby in the clutter on his desk. He starts to read it out loud and doesn't stop. At first his coworkers hardly notice. But after a series of strange coincidences, it's no longer clear whether he's reading the book or the book is transforming him.
8 hours long and with a cast of 13, Gatz is by far the New-York-based Elevator Repair Service Theatre Company's most ambitious endeavor yet  not a retelling of the Gatsby story but an enactment of the novel itself. Fitzgerald's American masterpiece is delivered word for word, startlingly brought to life by low-rent office staff in the midst of their inscrutable business operations.
The schedule of performance is as follows:
Act 1 Â 2 hours and 5 minutes
Interval  15 minutes
Act 2 Â 1 hour and 15 minutes
Long Interval  1 hour and 15 minutes
Act 3 Â 1 hour and 25 minutes
Interval  15 minutes
Act 4 Â 1 hour and 30 minutes
'A strangely seductive, often revelatory, and altogether ingenious production. '
Chicago Sun-Times
'The most remarkable achievement in theater not only of this year but also of this decade'
New York Times
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