THE DAILY JAWS GETS SHOUT-OUT FROM THE SHARK IS BROKEN IN THE GUARDIAN
Ever since it was first announced, The Daily Jaws has been a big supporter of The Shark Is Broken.
The play, co-written by and starring Ian Shaw, the son of Jaws legend Robert Shaw, charts the behind the scenes story of the making of Steven Spielberg's Jaws on Martha's Vineyard in 1974.
And, ahead of its West End debut on Saturday 9 October, it has been featured in a slew of interviews and features, including The Guardian. It was during this article where we get Ian Shaw mention the world's number one Jaws site.
Ian Shaw (centre) with actors Liam Murray-Scott (left as Hooper) and Duncan Henderson (right, as Brody) in Brighton 2019. Duncan is not acting in this latest run of The Shark Is Broken but built the fantastic Orca set!
Quoted in The Guardian from an interview Ian did with its sister paper, The Observer, he said: “Going back to things from our childhood does fill a void.”
"And there is a certain nostalgia around. But I also wonder if the reason there are now so many shows focused on past hits is that producers have suddenly realised just how many people out there still care. Jaws fans are legion. They even have websites like The Daily Jaws that can find something new to say almost every day.”
You can read the full article, entitled Back for another bite: why classic 70s and 80s screen classics are new stars of the stage, by Vanessa Thorpe, here: Back for another bite: why classic 70s and 80s screen classics are new stars of the stage
Dean Newman, head of content for The Daily Jaws, said: "Lots of Jaws fans have been following Ian and the rest of the crew since the play was announced ahead of storming The Edinburgh Fringe, we were lucky enough to see it in Brighton on one of its preview shows.
"It really is like time travelling to the film set, so it's great that more Jaws, film and theatre fans will be able to become immersed in the head, the tail, the whole damn thing."
And despite it being almost 50 years old, Jaws has never been bigger. On this side of the Atlantic, there is The Shark Is Broken, and over in LA, Bruce the shark is taking centre stage at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. The shark is far from broken, the shark from Jaws has awoken.
Not that this is the first time The Daily Jaws has been mentioned in The Guardian, we were interviewed last year regarding The Jaws WeMake, which Ian Shaw kindly recorded an introduction to. You can read about that article here: Jaws WeMake surfaces in The Guardian.
Words by Dean Newman
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