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CURRENT PRODUCTION
20th - 31st March 2012
"THE GREAT GATSBY"
Tickets on sale from the Inglewood Book Centre from 13th February 2012 - phone 06 7567032.F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, is today widely regarded as a paragon of the Great American Novel, and as a literary classic. The Modern Library named it the second best novel in its list of 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century, and it has been made into three film versions, with a fourth due out in 2012.
In 2009, one of New Zealand’s leading playwrights, Ken Duncum, adapted the novel into a stunning stage play. The play has been performed just twice to date: at the Court Theatre in Christchurch in 2009, and at Circa in Wellington in 2010. “The passion and scandal of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel, The Great Gatsby, is brought to the stage in a thrilling, new adaptation by Ken Duncum, winner of the 2010 New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize.” (The Dominion Post, Wellington).
Having been engaged by Cue as Director for the first slot in 2012, Margi Arthur fortuitously became aware of the script, sent for it, read it, and was hugely excited by its theatrical challenge and scale, and by the playwright’s skilful retention of Fitzgerald’s beautiful prose. Margi was delighted to offer it to Cue for their consideration, and Cue Theatre is proud to announce that they have now been granted the first amateur performing rights to stage The Great Gatsby as their first production for 2012.
The story will be familiar to most, with its depiction of the glamour and decadence of post-WWI America - the era of the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age–with Fitzgerald’s narrative describing the careless ostentation of the nouveau-riche. As it happened, his words were in fact prophetic, as the novel foreshadowed the Wall Street Crash and the resulting Great Depression. Against the glittering façade of Long Island’s wealthy, their mansions and endless parties, the story of Jay Gatsby’s obsessive love for his former sweetheart, Daisy Buchanan, plays out in all its romance, drama and tragedy. The Great Gatsby is ultimately a love story, but it is also a morality tale about the excesses of 1920s America. Theatre-goers might wish to contemplate theparallels with the current world economic crisis.
An actor-driven piece of theatre, there are 28 characters in Duncum’s play, although just eight of these are main characters. The balance of twenty-one subordinate characters can be played by a handful of actors, with doublings of numerous roles.A top script, with enormous scope for artistic input from the director and the creative team, and marvellous characters to be realised by the actors, will provide thrilling entertainment for the audiences.
The cast is: Cameron Curd playing Jay Gatsby; Michelle Rawlinson as Daisy Buchanan; Travis Graham, Tom Buchanan; Hendrikus De Vaan, Nick Carraway; Katherine Whaley, Jordan Baker; Erik Keen, Older Nick; Trudie Ashford, Myrtle Wilson; John Bellomo, George Wilson and Katherine Wolfe, Tracee Pigott and Tanaka Utete are all playing character roles.
The set design has already been completed by Cue Theatre's set designer and builder Alan Stevenson and will result in a set which is aesthetically stunning and theatrically exciting.
The choreographer is well- known New Plymouth dancer and member of Val Deakin Dance Theatre Davina Moffat and the resulting dance scenes promise to be spectacular.PERFORMANCE DATES
Gala Night Opening Performance on Tuesday 20th March 2012 at 7.30pm with drinks and nibbles from 6.45pm
Performances as follows: Wednesday 21st March at 7.30pm; Thursday 22nd March at 7.30pm; Friday 23rd March at 7.30pm; Saturday 24th March at 7.30pm; Sunday 25th March, matinee only at 2.00pm; No performance on Monday 26th March; Tuesday 27th March at 7.30pm; Wednesday 28th March at 7.30pm; Thursday 29th March at 7.30pm; Friday 30th March at 7.30pm; and Saturday 31st March, final performance at 7.30pm.
TICKETS
Available on sale from Inglewood Book Centre from 13th February 2012 - Phone 06 7567032.
$22.00 per person
$20.00 per person for pre-paid group bookings of 10 or more.For further information contact backstage@cuetheatre.co.nz.
CUE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS ARE KINDLY SPONSORED BY:
INGLEWOOD SHOPRITE
Kind sponsors of opening Gala Night beverage and Open seven days per week from 8am-8pm for all your grocery requirements.OSCAR'S