The Great Gatsby

Synopsis

It's 1922 and we welcome you to prohibition Wilton's. SURELY there is no better place to experience this new and immersive adaptation produced by the Wilton's Team and directed by Peter Joucla. Expect late night foxtrots, moonshine in teapots, pearls and flappers, bootleggers and millionaires. Published in 1925, four years before the catastrophic collapse of the American stock markets, Fitzgerald's novel graphically portrays a society being destroyed by money and dishonesty, an American Dream of happiness and individualism degenerating into the mere pursuit of wealth. This play was originally adapted for Tour De Force Theatre by Peter Joucla, Wilton's will provide a fresh and site specific environment. Filled with live and evocative jazz music from the twenties and recreating the glitz and decadence of the period, you are invited to the party. Dress in your 20s best, it's all happening at Wilton's speakeasy...

Our Review:

8 May 2012

In the crumbling interior of Wilton’s Music Hall a sumptuous, pleated backdrop lines the stage. It is there to reflect the glamour of 1920s Long Island, the grandeur of the houses and the curtains which float insouciantly in the breeze in Daisy and Tom’s mansion. Along with the audience’s feather headdresses and dandy cravats they set the scene nicely.

Later, this tone will be mocked by an a capella group but for now we are here in the house of the rich Buchanans and following Nick (Daisy Buchanan’s second cousin once removed) as he moves into unfashionable West Egg across the bay to be reunited with his old college friends.

The party revellers that eagerly fill Gatsby’s house each weekend are easily conjured up in this experiential The Great Gatsby by an audience dolled up in its 1920s best and eager to join in, whoop, cheer and be privy to the affairs and secrets of the mysterious Gatsby.

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