Noel Coward Theatre
St Martins Lane
London
WC2N 4AU
Directions:
Take the Piccadilly or Northern line to Leicester Square station. The theatre is a 2 minute walk.
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Gatz
Noel Coward Theatre
St Martins Lane
London
WC2N 4AU
Matinees: Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 2.30pm
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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 the New-York-based Elevator Repair Service Theatre Company'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 low-rent office staff in the midst of their inscrutable business operations.
The schedule of performance is as follows:Act 1 ? 2 hours and 5 minutesInterval ? 15 minutesAct 2 ? 1 hour and 15 minutesLong Interval ? 1 hour and 15 minutesAct 3 ? 1 hour and 25 minutesInterval ? 15 minutesAct 4 ? 1 hour and 30 minutes
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