Gatz at Noel Coward Theatre

'The most remarkable achievement in theater not only of this year but also of this decade' New York Times.

'A strangely seductive, often revelatory, and altogether ingenious production...' Chicago Sun-Times.

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 minutes
Interval – 15 minutes
Act 2 – 1 hour and 15 minutes
Long Interval – 1 hour and 15 minutes
Act 3 – 1 hour and 25 minutes
Interval – 15 minutes
Act 4 – 1 hour and 30 minutes