Happening in 702 Land: Gatsby comes alive: A cirque spectacle at The Cirk
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7.02 Weekend Breakfast. Happening in the Arts.
It's 11 minutes before 9 o'clock at the top of the hour. We'll get you very latest eyewitness news. But first, we're looking at The Great Gatsby or Gatsby coming alive at the Cirque. The production, The Great Gatsby Cirque at Savaganza started on the 18th of October. It runs until the 31st of January. And to tell us about this theatre production, we're joined on the line by Director of the Cirque, Joanna Pawelczyk. Joanna, a very good morning to you. Welcome to Weekend Breakfast.
What is The Great Gatsby Cirque production and when is it showing?
Thank you so much. A good morning to you. Thank you very much for your time. So tell us about Gatsby, a Cirque extravaganza that's currently showing at the Cirque.
So our show is a blend of theatre, of aerial arts, of dance, It's absolutely, it's dynamic, it's visually just stimulating. It's things you've never seen before. It's very different to normal theatre productions. We focus predominantly on dance and aerial arts in it. Each scene weaves its own story. Every scene is different to the next one. It's just really amazing to watch and Everybody can enjoy it. Honestly, any age can enjoy it.
And so tell us about the decision to show The Great Scatsby. Of course, it's F. Scott Fitzgerald, probably his most popular book. And many of us know the story for being, you know, it's part of the Roaring Twenties. So there was this kind of opulence, certainly for the wealthy class, but very opulent and luxurious story. Jake Gatsby himself is known for his ridiculous parties. Tell us how all of that kind of translates on stage.
So what we did is we did our own take of Gatsby. So what we do is we don't do regular theater productions where everybody's mic'd and there's a lot of script. We are an aerial arts company, so we... we translate scenes and stories through what we do, through how we move our bodies and how we present things on stage. We work with different aerial apparatus. So we'll have a scene which represents, you know, the big party scene in Gatsby, which will be full cast. It will be lots of bright flashing lights, people in the air spinning, kind of like that, taking like the scene from the movie and then bringing it to the stage. But in our own special way, there's also scenes that represent the more, you know, the serious, the dramatic, the sad, the,
The happy, the party. So all of the emotions that you get in the story and in the movie is what we try and bring to stage.
Right. And so if you've watched, for instance, Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gap, which was the movie, you've read the book. How different, you know, in what way does this production differ? What are some of the things that you will see that you've read and watched? And what are the things that are going to be completely new? Obviously, the acrobatics is a new element to the story, right? And so if you've read the book or watched the movie, what should you be expecting to see on stage?
I think this is an interesting one because I feel like if you're a little bit of a fan like me, I've watched the movie many times, you're going to pick up. You're going to go, oh, this is that scene. Oh, this is that scene. Because we really reimagined it in our own way.
How does The Cirk reinterpret Gatsby through aerial arts and dance?
But you're going to if you know it. you're going to appreciate, I think, the interpretation that we have done. And if you haven't seen it, that's also okay because you can still enjoy it for what it is. But you'll see, like, we've used obviously a lot of the music and there'll be scenes where, you know, there's a dance that's between two men and a woman and it's representing, like, the complex relationship that the main character, Daisy, faced between, you know, her husband and
Jay Gatsby so you'll pick up if you know the story you'll pick up the scenes and the kind of storylines that are going through it yeah and so tell us about you know some of the people that worked on this production who's the director who are some of the dancers that are part of this production how long did it take to put together what sounds like quite a you know it's quite a big story it's quite a big production how long did it take to put this all together
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