The original script was brief, just 35 pages, and the set, created mostly from scavenged furniture, was improvised and minimal.
Audiences entered up a fire escape, over the roof and through the back of the building into a replica of a drugstore speakeasy.
Scheduled to run for just four weeks in 2015, the production re-emerged in two new spaces the next year.
Wright and his producers, Immersive Everywhere, had long wanted to bring the show — which uses both group scenes and more intimate ones and select one-on-one encounters to bring “Gatsby” alive — to New York.
To bring this “Gatsby” to the city in which it’s set felt, Wright said, “amazing, inspiring, humbling, a bit intimidating.” It was also challenging.
Persons:
Wright, Gatsby, —, Louis Hartshorn, Arnold Rothstein, Meyer, Hartshorn, it’s
Organizations:
Audiences, Bond, Central
Locations:
London, Belgium, Ireland, Wales, South Korea, New York