Sophie Key’s The Great Gatsby transports audiences into the dark world of the Jazz Age in all its glamour, excess, secrets, and corruption.
It is an enthusiastic, immersive, and cleverly crafted adaptation that stays true to Fitzgerald’s classic whilst maintaining creative individuality.
Excitement and enthusiasm seeps through all cast members, and Dale Barrell particularly plays a compelling Nick Carraway, striking a strong balance between likeability, as the well-meaning outsider, but also unreliability, as the unconscious judgementalist.
One doesn’t need to have read the novel in order to enjoy this fast, daring, and tragic story about the infectious consequences of a single dream.
