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GATZ
Opens: 08/06/2012 Closes: 15/07/2012
Noel Coward Theatre, London
In a year that sees a half-play, half-party and a film based on F Scott Fitzgerald's classic The Great Gatsby, it's anyone's guess why the author's estate initially tried to block this adaptation. After rave reviews stateside, Elevator Repair Service finally reach the UK with their verbatim enactment: at eight hours long, it does have a Gatsbyesque break for supper.
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80 %
Time Out“An extraordinary piece of theatre...” This singular show is a big ask. But if you can grow with it, you'll see a Gatsby or a Daisy behind every pair of tired eyes on the train home...
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60%
Financial Times“A second- or even third-degree portrayal...” The aim, as far as I can see, is to seduce us into the deeper experience little by little via amusement and curiosity. Its success or otherwise is a matter of personal negotiation...
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75 %
The Observer“The overall effect is of caustic intelligence...” All the glitter and go is in Fitzgerald's prose. To which the drab, meandering late 20th-century office life acts as a reproving commentary, a rebuttal of the American dream...
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85%
The Arts Desk“Worth the arse ache and then some...” Lasting as long as your average office day, Gatz offers a chance to fully immerse yourself in a novel - and hot damn it really is a good one...
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90%
The Stage“An exceptional treatment...” Uses every single word of Fitzgerald’s novel to tell his story again in vivid, captivating theatrical terms and though it isn’t a musical, it instead finds the music in the cadences and poetry of those words...
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80 %
Evening Standard“A tribute to the greatness of Fitzgerald’s novel...” It’s layered, intelligent, inventive and never afraid of slowness, pensiveness, a quiet literariness. It’s eloquent, too, about the fragile business of storytelling...
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40%
Whatsonstage.com“Hide-bound by textual fidelity...” It strikes [me] as failing to have any interesting attitude to its material, to be lazily engineered in the modern dowdy office setting, and to be deeply non-theatrical...
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80 %
Guardian“It's not flawless but it's memorable...” Above all, this staging beautifully captures the elegiac tone of the book with its sense of the dissolving, essentially agrarian American Dream...
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80 %
The Telegraph“A remarkable event...” It's not just that every passage gets a light shone on it, allowing us to savour the detail - but that the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts...
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