ADAPTING GATSBY.

ADAPTING GATSBY. I posted here about Gatz, an adaptation of THE GREAT GATSBY in which one of the characters reads aloud all of THE GREAT GATSBY. It’s a wonderful experience, and it is now having a second run at the Public Theater. Barbara Chai interviewed John Collins, the director of Gatz, in the Wall Street Journal (May 8),and asked him about Baz Luhrmann’s coming adaptation of the book. Collins is curious about it, after having spent so much time with Fitzgerald’s words. He volunteered that the risk in adapting the book is in adding material rather than leaving things out (of course, Gatz leaves nothing out). He says: “That’s some of what Fizgerald does best in this book—the way he writes around certain important events and details.”