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

Name: A Public Reading Of An Unproduced Screenplay About The Death Of Walt Disney
Brand: Lucas Hnath
SKU: 9780822229933
Rating: 3.55 (141 reviews)

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

Unit Set/Multiple SettingsAmerican

What readers are saying

Readers have mixed feelings about this play, appreciating its intriguing concept yet critiquing its execution. While some find the exploration of Walt Disney's darker legacy compelling and humorous, others feel the structure is weak and the dialogue fragmented. Overall, the play sparks interest but also leaves some puzzled about its purpose and delivery.

Intriguing exploration of Disney's legacyClever use of screenplay formatFun and humorous momentsWeak structure and disjointed dialogueConfusing concepts and themes

Synopsis

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.

ThemesDisney, Roy O. (Roy Oliver) , 1893-1971 Disney, Walt , 1901-1966 PS3608.N38 P83 2014

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

PublisherDramatists Play Service

Year2014

BindingPaperback

Pages104

LanguageEnglish

ISBN-139780822229933

ISBN-100822229935

LCCN2016299160

LCCPS3608.N38 P83 2014

DCC812/.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).