Gatz

Gatz at Noel Coward Theatre

Why see Gatz?

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 ERS'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 a low-rent office staff in the midst of their inscrutable business operations.

Key Information

Run Time

Starts at 2.30pm and finishes at 10.30pm, including two fifteen minute intervals and a one and a half hour supper break.

Dates

Finished 15 Jul 2012

Cast

Scott Shepherd as Nick
Jim, Jim Fletcher
Lucille, Kate Scelsa
Jordan, Susie Sokol (also Sibyl Kempson)
Daisy, Victoria Vazquez (also Lucy Taylor)
Tom, Gary Wilmes (also Robert Cucuzza)
Chester, Vin Knight
George, Aaron Landsman (also Frank Boyd)
Catherine, Annie McNamara (also Kristen Sieh)
Michaelis, Ben Williams
Myrtle, Laurena Allan
Ewing, Mike Iveson
Henry C. Gatz, Ross Fletcher

Creative

Directed by John Collins
Associate Director Steve Bodow
Set by Louisa Thompson
Lights by Mark Barton
Sound by Ben Williams
Costumes by Colleen Werthmann
Stage Manager/Assistant Director Sarah Hughes
Production Management B.D. White
Producer Ariana Smart Truman
Company Manager Lindsay Hockaday

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