F Scott Fitzgerald’s:
The Great Gatsby

Welcome to The Jazz Age: a fever dream of dizzying excess where love, lies and liquor are in hot supply.

A Queensland Theatre and Shake & Stir Theatre Co Production in association with The Empire

F Scott Fitzgerald’s:  ~The Great Gatsby~
F Scott Fitzgerald’s:  ~The Great Gatsby~

#Can you repeat the past? Of course you can, Old Sport.

Welcome to The Jazz Age: a fever dream of dizzying excess where love, lies and liquor are in hot supply. Late to this glittering party arrives Nick Carraway, a blow-in from the mid-West, who’s immediately drawn to the enigmatic playboy next door: Jay Gatsby.

Every Saturday night New York’s Flappers, Freeloaders and Pleasure Seekers swill from Gatsby’s generosity while rumours swirl about their mysterious host. Is he a racketeer? A mobster? A bootlegger? A saint? Nick soon discovers the forlorn Gatsby is a man who has everything he wants - except the only woman he’s ever loved … Daisy.

Considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary masterpiece comes roaring to the stage in a stylish and scintillating adaptation where dreams shimmer then shatter, hearts beat achingly out of time and everyone’s chasing their own green light.

Queensland Theatre Company and our nationally-acclaimed homegrown heroes Shake & Stir Theatre Co, spirit you away to that elusive gin-soaked Summer of 1922 where love and longing is served on the rocks. From the creative teams that brought you Pride & Prejudice, Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol and GRIMM, alongside a cast of rising stars, this Gatsby is shaken, not stirred.

Thursday 05 February - 1:00pm & 7:30pm

Friday 06 February - 7:30pm


PREMIUM
Adult $99.00
Concession $89.00
Youth U18 $74.00
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A RESERVE
Empire Cardholder $79.00
Adult $89.00
Concession $79.00
Youth U18 $64.00
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Recommended 15+
Mature Themes, Moderate Violence, Sexual References and Use of Drugs and Alcohol.

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Scintillating and genuinely brilliant.

New York Post on Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

…it's not the champagne and the dancing… it is those feelings of wondering where we are, the sense that anything can crumble at any moment, that keep Gatsby meaningful.

Michael Farris Smith, American Novelist

Perhaps the supreme American novel.

Sunday Times

Forget great. The Great Gatsby is the greatest…

Maureen Corrigan, So We Read On

#Creative Team & Cast

CREATIVE TEAM

Set & Costume Designer Christina Smith
Associate Costume Designer Nat Ryner
Lighting Designer Trent Suidgeest
Composer & Sound Designer Guy Webster
Choreographer Nerida Matthaei
Creative Producer Ross Balbuziente 

CAST INCLUDES

Meg Fraser
Ryan Hodson
Shiv Palekar
Jeremiah Wray

For more than 50 years, Queensland Theatre has created collective experiences that change lives, presenting an annual season of the best classic, contemporary, international and Australian works.

Shake & Stir is one of the country’s leading contemporary theatre companies touring Australia and New Zealand since 2006. Shake & Stir produce an annual season of Mainstage and in-school productions.

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Acknowledgement
of country

The Empire acknowledges the Traditional Custodians, the Giabal, Jarowair and Western Wakka Wakka peoples, where we work and present stories. We would like to pay respect to the Elders, past and present and to all First Nations peoples.

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