What people are saying about JAWS inspired play 'The Shark Is Broken'
You can catch The Shark Is Broken from 25th July 2023 at the Golden Theater, New York, NYC.
JAWS is a cinematic phenomenon. Inventing the summer blockbuster, putting one of nature’s most incredible creatures into the public consciousness like never before and revealing to the world to the storytelling talent that is Steven Spielberg.
But the story within a story of JAWS is the incredible making of. JAWS (as a movie) really shouldn’t exist, such was the difficulty of the production. Now, just under half a century after the film’s release, a play about the making of Spielberg’s shark classic has hit Broadway - and both JAWS fans and theater lovers are heaping giant-shark sized praise on this reimagining of one of Hollywood’s most unlikely success stories….
About The Shark is Broken
You can catch The Shark Is Broken from 25th July 2023 at the Golden Theater, New York, NYC.
FADE IN: The open ocean, 1974. Filming is delayed…again. The lead actors—theatre veteran Robert Shaw and young Hollywood hotshots Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider—are crammed into a too-small boat, entirely at the mercy of foul weather and a faulty mechanical co-star. Alcohol flows, egos collide, and tempers flare on a chaotic voyage that just might lead to cinematic magic…if it doesn’t sink them all.
Step aboard the Orca and into THE SHARK IS BROKEN, a “profound dive behind the scenes of the making of Jaws” (The Daily Telegraph, ★★★★). This Olivier Award-nominated new play is “hilariously brilliant and pure genius” raves the Sunday Express (★★★★★) and stars Ian Shaw (War Horse, Common) as his father, Robert Shaw, Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice, School of Rock) as Richard Dreyfuss, and Colin Donnell (Anything Goes, “Chicago Med”) as Roy Scheider.
Directed by Olivier Award winner Guy Masterson, co-written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, and inspired by Robert Shaw’s experience playing Quint on the notorious shoot, THE SHARK IS BROKEN celebrates movie history and peeks at the choppy waters behind Hollywood’s first blockbuster.
Short tempers. Short circuits. 95 minutes, no intermission.