The Great Gatsby

You can’t live forever…

The passion and scandal of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel, The Great Gatsby, is brought to the stage in a thrilling new adaptation by Ken Duncum, winner of the 2010 New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize.

Over a shimmering summer in a rented bungalow on Long Island, New York, Nick Carraway enters the restless world of feverish excitement, excessive self-indulgence and elegant romance populated by the bright young poisonous things of the Jazz Age.

Entangled in the fatal attraction of beautiful Daisy Buchanan and the mysterious Jay Gatsby, Nick finds himself drawn further and further into the dazzling decadence of the Roaring Twenties, until his final devastating discovery explodes the glamorous façade of the American Dream.

“Ken Duncum’s adaptation is inspired… captures perfectly the tragic human story inside a decadent society” – The Press, Christchurch

The novel: The Great Gatsby was not initially popular, selling fewer than 25,000 copies during the remaining fifteen years of Fitzgerald's life. Largely forgotten during the Great Depression and the Second World War, it was only after republishing in 1945 and 1953 that it quickly found a wide readership. The Great Gatsby has become a standard text in high school and university courses worldwide, is widely regarded as a literary classic and a paragon of the Great American Novel. It’s ranked second in the Modern Library's list of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century.

Starring: Erin Banks, Paul Harrop, Ray Henwood, Guy Langford, Miranda Manasiadis, Nathan Meister, Danny Mulheron and Jessica Robinson.

Set & Costume Design: Brian King / Lighting Design: Lisa Maule / Sound Design: Stephen Gallagher
Musical Arrangement & Direction: Michael Nicholas Williams / Choreographer: Sacha Copeland

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