THE SHARK IS BROKEN to embark on UK & Ireland tour in 2025

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1975 iconic blockbuster Jaws, the critically acclaimed Olivier award-nominated West End and Broadway production, The Shark is Broken, will embark on a UK and Ireland tour next year.

Co-written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon and inspired by Robert Shaw’s experience playing Quint in Jaws, The Shark Is Broken is the brilliantly funny play which celebrates movie history as it peeks at the choppy waters behind Hollywood’s first blockbuster and imagines what happened on board ‘The Orca’ when the cameras stopped rolling during the filming of Steven Spielberg’s epic movie.

Starring Ian Shaw (Warhorse, Common) as his father, Robert Shaw, the show will open at Oxford Playhouse on 23 January 2025, before visiting Malvern, Salford, Richmond, Nottingham, Bath, Canterbury, Newcastle, Guildford, Plymouth, Brighton, Cheltenham, Poole, Birmingham, and Dublin.

Casting for the roles of Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss are to be announced.

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.

To book tickets for select touring venues, please click here.