The Great Gatsby @ The Roman Theatre
When: 8th - 24th August 2025
Where: The Roman Theatre of Verulamium, Bluehouse Hill, St Albans AL3 6AE
Ticket Cost: £15.00 – £47.00
More Info: here
“I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
It’s 1929. The Roaring Twenties are flickering out, and the shadow of the Great Depression creeps ever closer. Inside a smoky cabaret bar, a troupe of performers take the stage for their final performance: the rise and fall of the legendary Gatsby.
As the story unfolds, we watch as the performers, who, in becoming entangled in Gatsby’s pathological pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, learn the ultimate cost of unattainable dreams.
OVO’s brand-new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless narrative brings the glamour, decadence, and tragedy of the Jazz Age to the Roman Theatre. Featuring a live Jazz pianist underscoring this ensemble-led production, be prepared to be immersed in the hedonistic roaring 20’s world of excess, fantasy, and “the great American dream”.
Click the button above to find out more about the show from its director Kelly Ann Stewart and adaptor and producer, Mark O’Sullivan.
Content Guidance
This production of The Great Gatsby stays true to the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and therefore includes sexual implication as well as language and themes that reflect the social attitudes of the 1920s such as sexism and racsim.
Contains flashing lights.