![]() Musical suggestions are not required but can add even more flavor of the 1920s to your production.Ī self-made millionaire, Jay Gatsby’s desire for wealth, popularity, and power in the Jazz Age hides a deeper passion: his love for Daisy, the woman he met and fell for years ago, but who has since married wealthy, hulking browbeater Tom Buchanan. Productions can be as simple or as elaborate as your budget and your vision allow. Playwright Gary Peterson has done it once again with this very accessible, 75-minute adaptation that - with limited set and costume requirements - is perfect for high schools, colleges, and community theatres. Recommended for absolutely everyone, as even those familiar with the novel may notice something new thanks to Hope?s nuanced (and only mildly faulty) performance.Now in the public domain, this sparkling adaptation of The Great Gatsby beautifully captures the glamour of the Roaring 20s and all the iconic moments of the beloved American classic. He also does quite well with the party guests and the gambler Meyer Wolfsheim, faltering only by making Tom Buchanan sound a bit like a gravel-voiced truck driver. He stumbles a bit at the beginning, drawing upon the revelation that narrator Nick Carraway is a Yale man by making the narration somewhat arch, but once he settles down, Hope ably conveys Carraway?s optimistic innocence. ![]() It is a book that deserves a perfect reading, and though numerous other narrators have tried?among them Robertson Dean, Anthony Heald, Alexander Scourby, and Tim Robbins?Hope may have come closest to achieving this perfection. Canadian actor William Hope reads Naxos AudioBooks? first unabridged production of Fitzgerald?s classic novel of the Roaring Twenties.
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