#Main Info
Can you repeat the past? Of course you can, Old Sport.
Welcome to The Jazz Age: a fever dream of dizzying excess where love, lies and liquor are in hot supply. Late to this glittering party arrives Nick Carraway, a blow-in from the mid-West, who’s immediately drawn to the enigmatic playboy next door: Jay Gatsby.
Every Saturday night New York’s Flappers, Freeloaders and Pleasure Seekers swill from Gatsby’s generosity while rumours swirl about their mysterious host. Is he a racketeer? A mobster? A bootlegger? A saint? Nick soon discovers the forlorn Gatsby is a man who has everything he wants - except the only woman he’s ever loved … Daisy.
Considered one of the greatest novels ever written, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary masterpiece comes roaring to the stage in a stylish and scintillating adaptation where dreams shimmer then shatter, hearts beat achingly out of time and everyone’s chasing their own green light.
Shake & Stir Theatre Co and Queensland Theatre Company spirit you away to that elusive gin-soaked Summer of 1922, where love and longing is served on the rocks. From the creative teams that brought you Frankenstein, Pride & Prejudice, and GRIMM, alongside a cast of rising stars, this Gatsby is shaken, not stirred.
A Shake & Stir Theatre Co and Queensland Theatre Company co-production.
Created By
Adapted by Daniel Evans and Nelle Lee
Directed by Daniel Evans and Nick Skubij
Set & Costume Designer Christina Smith
Associate Costume Designer Nat Ryner
Lighting Designer Trent Suidgeest
Composer & Sound Designer Guy Webster
Choreographer Nerida Matthaei
Creative Producer Ross Balbuziente
Featuring: Meg Fraser, Ryan Hodson, Shiv Palekar, and Jeremiah Wray
Details
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Duration 2 hours 30 minutes including interval, subject to change without notice
This production contains: mature themes, moderate violence, sexual references and the simulated use of drugs and alcohol.
AGE RECOMMENDATION
Recommended for ages 14+
#Team
Daniel Evans
Adaptor & Director
Nelle Lee
Adaptor
Nick Skubij
Director
Trent Suidgeest
Lighting Designer
Guy Webster
Composer & Sound Designer
Ross Balbuziente
Creative Producer
Jeremiah Wray
Cast
Ryan Hodson
Cast
#Praise for The Great Gatsby
Scintillating and genuinely brilliant
New York Post
…it's not the champagne and the dancing… it is those feelings of wondering where we are, the sense that anything can crumble at any moment, that keep Gatsby meaningful.
Michael Farris Smith, American Novelist
Perhaps the supreme American novel.
Sunday Times
Forget great. The Great Gatsby is the greatest…
Maureen Corrigan, So We Read On
