Play Club Indie Stage: AN UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY ABOUT THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY

PLAY CLUB INDIE STAGE PRESENTS

A PUBLIC READING OF AN UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY ABOUT THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY
A NEW PLAY BY LUCAS HNATH

Monday 2 March 2015, 7:00pm

Miao | Eat, Love, Play
20 Jarvis, De Waterkant
Miao will offer a full bar and kitchen menu.
 

ABOUT THE PLAY:

Tonight, Walt is going to read 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?


FROM THE CRITICS:

“... 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 cartoon gyrations in his grave if he were to see how thoroughly Mr. Hnath (pronounced “nayth”) has subverted the popular image of Disney.” - NY 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.” - NY Daily News

“... a devastating portrait of a man for whom make-believe was more real than reality itself.” - NY Post

“A blood-pumping and often hilarious evening of theater.” - TheaterMania.com

“Enjoyably weird and hermetic ... Nothing that ever came out of the Magic Kingdom was ever this animated.” - Time Out NY
 

STARRING:

Richard Wright Firth as Walt Disney
Daniel Barnett as Roy Disney
Maria Vos as Daughter
Mark Wijsdom as Son-in-Law

Stage directions by guest moderator Tamryn Spiers

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