Los Angeles Premiere!
Hailed by critics around the world as a major theatrical event of historic proportions, Gatz is a bravura feat celebrated for its singular and dazzling literary alchemy. Gatz is not a retelling of the The Great Gatsby,
but a revelatory, seven-hour enactment of experiencing the novel, as F.
Scott Fitzgerald’s American masterpiece is delivered word for word,
brought to life with absolutely startling dramatic effect by a cast of
13. The audacious New York theater ensemble Elevator Repair Service
opens the drama in the shabby offices of a mysterious small
business—where an employee finds a copy of the book on his cluttered
desk and, for reasons unknown, begins reading the novel out loud. His
coworkers hardly react at first, but, after a series of strange
coincidences, they appear to take on the roles of The Great Gatsby’s
characters. Is the reader, “Nick”—played by The Wooster Group’s Scott
Shepherd, in a superhuman turn—merely reading the novel, or he is being
personally transformed by it?
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