He starts to read it out loud and doesn’t stop.

GATZ
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 ERS’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 a low-rent office staff in the midst of their inscrutable business operations.

The most remarkable achievement in theater not only of this year but also of this decade.
—Ben Brantley, The New York Times

A strangely seductive, often revelatory, and altogether ingenious production…
—Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times

…One of the few ovations for which I have unreservedly stood.
—The Independent, London

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