Gatz
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Opened Sep 26, 2010
Closed Nov 28, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
One morning in the office of a mysterious small business, an employee finds a copy of The Great Gatsby in the clutter of 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. Gatz is a theatrical and literary tour de force, not a retelling of the Gatsby story but an enactment of the novel itself. Over the course of a single 6 1/2 hour production, 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.
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Hearty congratulations to The Elevator Repair Service for doing something many have tried on screen and stage and at which few have come away triumphant. The ingenious group, under director-founder John Collins' inspired guidance, has adapted The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's perfect 1925 novel, into a mesmerizing theater piece called
Gatz, now making its New York debut at the Public Theater.
While the work includes the entire text -- resulting in a six-hour-15-minute production (plus two short intermissions and a 75-minute dinner break) -- the lengthy production goes by in what seems like a blink of an eye.
One reason for the show's success is that Collins and his 13-member [...]