I'm pretty convinced we're only a few years away from the point where all the new work ever produced will be some kind of adaptation of
The Great Gatsby, but until then Hannah Corneau (music and lyrics) and Mona Mansour (book) give us its writer, and the woman whose contribution to it we're led to consider might be larger than we thought. F. Scott (David Hunter) and Zelda Fitzgerald (Amy Parker) were known for their hard-drinking party lifestyle and both died young - the story is narrated by their daughter Scottie (Lauren Ward,) who's just turned 48 and thereby outlived both her parents. At an archive dedicated to their work Scottie goes through records, diary entries and letters that bring her parents back to life and reveal the side of them she had never quite realised was there under the self-obsessed façades and histrionics.
