$12 - Individual Sales
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$10 - Education Groups of 10 or more
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THE STORY
The story follows midwestern WWI veteran Nick Carraway, who moves to New York City in search of employment after the war in the Roaring 20s. He is soon pulled into the world of the rich and powerful by way of his cousin and her husband, Daisy and Tom Buchanan, and by Nick's mysterious millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is considered to be one of the great American novels. This performance features a solo performance of the privilege and pitfalls each character encounters as they each reach for their own "green light."
IN PERFORMANCE
Literature to Life adapts F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic work as their newest title in their Signature Performance series. The Great Gatsby takes place on Long Island and New York City in the early twentieth century, at the height of the Jazz Age and the Prohibition Era. The novel touches on the treatment of different social classes, "old money" versus "new money," and the price of the American Dream.
"It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again." - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This performance fulfills the following State of New Jersey Core Curriculum Standard(s) and Algonquin Arts Performance Component(s): 21st Century Life and Careers (LIFE), Comprehensive Health and Physical Education, Social Studies (SS) Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), Language Arts Literacy (LAL), Music Education (MUS), Discussion Component (DISC).
Running time: 80 minutes (includes performance and Q&A)
Intermission: No
Age: Grades 6 and Up
Seating for Algonquin Education Series performances is assigned by the box office to ensure that schools will be seated together to the extent possible and to expedite the arrival and departure process. Individual ticket purchasers will be grouped together, general admission seats.
A Literature to Life® stage presentation of The Great Gatsby
Based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Adapted and directed by Kelvin Grullon
Based on the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, © 1925
Original production produced in partnership with Northern Stage. Support generously provided by the Helen Gurley Brown Foundation.
National Programs at Literature to Life is a theatre-based literacy program that presents professionally staged, verbatim adaptations of significant American literary works in educational settings across the country.
