A Public Reading Of An Unproduced Screenplay About The Death Of Walt Disney
by Lucas Hnath

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Unit Set/Multiple Settings American

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Tonight Walt is going to read to you a screenplay he wrote.

It's about his last days on earth.

It's about a city he's going to build that's going to change the world.

And it's about his brother.

It's about everyone who loves him so much, and it's about how sad they're going to be when he's gone.

Right?

I mean, how can they live without him?

How can anyone live without him?

The Soho Rep. playscript of the world premiere of Lucas Hnath's adrenaline-charged odyssey, a supersonic portrait of the man who forever changed the American Dream.

Press Reviews

"…a blackly comic inversion of the public Disney persona, in the form of a stylized screenplay being read in an anonymous-looking corporate conference room…Walt would be doing cartoonish gyrations in his grave if he were to see how thoroughly Mr. Hnath (pronounced nayth) has subverted the popular image of Disney.” —The New York Times. ”Minutes into the darkly humorous play it's clear that for the famous man who made Mickey Mouse, movies and the Magic Kingdom, everything was about him. Always. Especially during his last days on earth.“—New York Daily News. ”…a devastating portrait of a man for whom make-believe was more real than reality itself.“ —New York Post. ”A blood-pumping and often hilarious evening of theater.“ —TheaterMania. ”Enjoyably weird and hermetic…Nothing that ever came out of the Magic Kingdom was ever this animated."

— Time Out New York

Publication

Year 2014
Binding Paperback
Pages 104
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822229933
ISBN-10 0822229935
LCCN 2016299160
LCC PS3608.N38 P83 2014
DCC 812/.54

A Public Reading Of An Unproduced Screenplay About The Death Of Walt Disney is a American play written by Lucas Hnath and published by Dramatists Play Service (2014).

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