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Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney
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Ideal for readers interested in arts and culture, fans of theatrical works and those intrigued by the complex legacy of Walt Disney and his family dynamics.
“Enjoyably weird . . . nothing that ever came out of the Magic Kingdom was this animated.” —Time Out NY
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Lucas Hnath's darkly clever A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney centres on the reading, in a generic corporate conference room, of a stylised screenplay written by the great man himself, in the ultimate act of self-mythologising. It's being read by the people it's about—Walt himself, his brother/henchman Roy, and Walt's resentful daughter and her ex-jock husband.
It's about Walt's 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, and how sad they're going to be when he's gone.
Can Walt control the future from the grave? Why does his daughter hate him so much? Were thousands of lemmings harmed in the making of a famous Disney nature film? Stay tuned...
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Charles Isherwood of The New York Times describes it as a "superb meditation on the human desire to aspire to the status of a god, and the corrupting influence of this wish on the spirit and the flesh." Time Out NY calls it "enjoyably weird" and notes "nothing that ever came out of the Magic Kingdom was this animated."
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ISBN: 9781468310825
Publisher: Overlook Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 February 2020
Country: United States
Imprint: Overlook Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 8.0mm
Width: 139.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 160g
Pages: 112
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About the Author
Lucas Hnath is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, and his plays have been produced or developed at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Culture Project, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Raddlestick Playwrights Theatre, among others. His play A Doll’s House, Part 2 premiered on Broadway in 2017 and received eight Tony nominations including Best Play and an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding New Broadway Play.
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