Theatre: It’s a good Gatsby, not a great Gatsby

While the poetic and doom-laden dialogue is largely faithful to Fitzgerald, many of his story’s subtleties get drowned out

The Great Gatsby at the Gate Theatre in Dublin;
Paul Mescal and Charlene McKenna as Gatsby and Daisy

The Great Gatsby

By F Scott Fitzgerald (adapted by Alexander Wright)

Gate Theatre

Rating:****

Runs until September 16

At one point on opening night of The Great Gatsby, this reviewer and a handful of other lucky people were invited into the title character’s bedroom. There we watched him (Paul Mescal) and his old love Daisy Buchanan (Charlene McKenna) partially undress each other, lament the fact that ...