The darker side of Disney
A screenplay written by Walt, performed by Walt, about … Walt. This highly stylized production explores the darker side of Walt Disney, the (in)authenticity of his movies, his desire for cryogenic immortality, and his drive to build a city (not just an amusement park) where everyone does only what they’re good at and nothing they aren’t.
In this production Walt (near death), his brother Roy, Walt’s daughter, and her husband gather at a conference room table for a dramatic and darkly humorous reading of Walt’s screenplay.
Soho Rep
46 Walker Street
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NYTheater
In a world in which all communication now has the option to take place by purely technological means, where artificial sites of beauty are just as likely to attract hordes as the increasingly spare natural ones…
New York Daily News
Minutes into the darkly humorous play, “A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney,” it’s clear that for the famous man who made Mickey Mouse, movies and the Magic Kingdom, everything was about him.
New York Post
There’s life & magic in ‘Death of Walt Disney’
New York Times
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