THE SHARK IS BROKEN to make waves on Broadway this summer

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It has been announced that smash-hit play The Shark is Broken will make waves at Broadway’s John Golden Theatre from 10 August for a limited 16-week run this summer, after critically acclaimed runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and in London’s West End.

A new Olivier Award-nominated comedy by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, The Shark is Broken imagines what happened on board “The Orca” when the cameras stopped rolling during the filming of Stephen Spielberg’s blockbuster, JAWS.  Directed by Guy Masterson, co-writer Ian Shaw will also star in The Shark is Broken, making his Broadway debut in the role he created in Edinburgh and in the West End, portraying his father Robert Shaw who played Quint in JAWS.  Casting for the roles of Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss will be announced at a later date.

FADE IN: The open ocean, 1974. Production on JAWS is delayed…again. The film’s 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. 

From the JAWS of defeat, came a Hollywood victory.

The Shark is Broken includes set and costume design by Duncan Henderson, lighting by Jon Clark, sound and original music by Adam Cork, video design by Nina Dunn, and casting by Jim Carnahan Casting.

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