It’s a fantastic experience, especially if, like me, you’ve loved the novel for decades and read it many times.
James Gatz — that was really, or at least legally, his name.
One morning in the low-rent office of a mysterious small business, one employee finds a ragged old copy of The Great Gatsby in the clutter of his desk and starts to read it out loud. And doesn’t stop.
At first his coworkers hardly seem to notice, but then weird coincidences start happening in the office, one after another, until it’s no longer clear whether he’s reading the book or the book is doing something to him. . . .
6 hours long and with a cast of 13, Gatz is by far ERS’s most ambitious endeavor yet — not a stage adaptation of Fitzgerald’s novel but a verbatim reading of the entire book, accomplished by the staff of a small office in the midst of their increasingly bewildering business operations.
