This is an all-immersive razzle-dazzle start to Selina Cartmell’s tenure at the Gate, a theatre in which philandering and bacchanalia has always been a subject matter for many of its productions. F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel which Jay Gatsby “sprang from his Platonic conception of himself,” only garnered acclaim after his death. Flouting the mores of society back in 1925, The Great Gatsby was a truly modern publication. The staging of it in the Gate marks a modernisation in its own right. (until Sept 16)
