EXTENDS FURTHER INTO THE ROARING
TWENTIES
TICKETS NOW ON SALE UNTIL 30 OCTOBER
2022
Immersive Everywhere – led by Olivier Award-winning producers Louis
Hartshorn and Brian Hook – are pleased to announce a further extension to the
run of London’s longest running immersive theatrical production THE GREAT
GATSBY. Created and directed by Alexander Wright, THE GREAT GATSBY
is now playing at Gatsby’s Mansion at Immersive LDN in Mayfair until 30
October 2022.
Welcome back to the roaring twenties! Jay Gatsby invites you to one
of his infamous parties. the champagne flows and as the drama unfolds the man
himself will be the perfect host. As invites go, this is the hottest ticket in
town. A hedonistic world of red hot rhythms, bootleg liquor and pure jazz age
self-indulgence awaits. Dress to the nines and immerse yourself in this heart
racing adaption of F Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal tale.
Oliver Towse plays ‘Gatsby’, with Lucinda Turner
as ‘Daisy’, Hugh Stubbins as ‘Nick’, Jermaine Dominique as ‘Tom’, Steve
McCourt as ‘George Wilson’, Jessica Hern as ‘Jordan’, Aminita
Francis as ‘Myrtle Wilson’, Alex Wingfield as ‘Rosy Rosenthal’, Aimee
Barrett as ‘Lucille’ and Greg Fossard as ‘Joey’.
THE GREAT GATSBY– forced to close in
March 2020 by the pandemic - was one of the first shows to re-open that year under
socially distanced conditions and with changes to the show to incorporate extra
safety measures in October, before its forced closure in November due to the
subsequent lockdown. It reopened in September 2021 back to its original
pre-pandemic format, and with the venue at full capacity, and continuing to
follow all current government guidelines and Covid safety measures.
Tickets for THE GREAT GATSBY are on sale now via www.immersivegatsby.com.
IMMERSIVE LDN has been granted the use of Society of London Theatre
& UK Theatre's See It Safely mark. The mark certifies that the venue is complying with the
latest Government and industry COVID-19 guidelines, to ensure the
safety of all staff and audiences.
Olivier Award winning producers Louis Hartshorn and Brian
Hook, who are currently co-producing the immersive production of DOCTOR
WHO: TIME FRACTURE and CHOIR OF MAN– launched a new company in 2019,
IMMERSIVE EVERYWHERE, entirely dedicated to developing and staging
theatre-led immersive experiences, and immersive
| ldn is the newest of their network of venues, which will house
cafes, bars and rehearsal and workshop spaces to help the development of new
work.
IMMERSIVE | LDN is a 32,000sq ft historic building in the heart of Mayfair, which
was home to the Queen Victoria’s Rifles Association until 2017. It includes
three floors of immersive theatre and event spaces designated for performance,
live gaming, events, escape rooms and private parties. For information about
programming and venue hire visit www.immersiveldn.com
First conceived in 2015 when director Alexander Wright and producer
Brian Hook were running The Fleeting Arms - a pop arts and community pub in an
abandoned building in York, the show then ran in York in 2016 with a parallel
production in Sheffield, and was produced by the Guild of Misrule . The Great
Gatsby first came to London as part of VAULT Festival in 2017 and sold out
before the show opened. Since then the show has run in Wales in co-production
with Theatr Clwyd, at Halifax’s Square Chapel, and at Castle Howard in North
Yorkshire. All the while the show has played night after night at Gatsby’s
Drugstore in London SE1, inviting audiences into the hedonistic world of F.
Scott Fitzgerald’s extraordinary tale, and in 2018 it became the UK’s longest
running immersive production.
Amie Burns Walker and Oliver Tilney are
Associate Directors. Choreography is by Holly Beasley-Garrigan, with MJ
Lee as Associate Choreographer, design by Casey Jay Andrews, costume
design by Heledd Rees, sound design by Phil Grainger and lighting
design by Rachel Sampley. The
original score was composed and produced by Glen Brown and Tendai
Humphrey Sitima, with arrangement and additional composition by David
Sims. The original production was created by
Holly Beasley-Garrigan, Amie Burns Walker, Hannah Davies, Phil Grainger,
Michael Lambourne, Thomas Maller and Oliver Tilney.
This production of The Guild of Misrule’s
THE GREAT GATSBY is produced by Immersive
Everywhere, with co-producers Gavin Kalin
Productions and Glynis Henderson Productions, with Theatr Clwyd and We Culture
Connects as Associate Producers.
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